RES-2015-010 Resolution Regarding Legislative Matters - Statewide Issues with Exhibits

Browse Search

adequate State-funded mental health, developmental disability, and substance abuse services and facilities are available at the local level, accessible and affordable to all residents and that sufficient state resources fund service provision costs inclusive of sufficient crisis beds, and to structure appropriate county participation in governance. ; 10) * Child Care - Seek legislation to reverse changes made to the childcare subsidy program available to working families, including the eligibility change of 2000 of the federal poverty level to 133%, which harms many working parents who are trying to become more financial self-sufficient, and the provision change that requires nonparent relatives living with the child to have their income counted for child care eligibility; 11) Land, Water and Agricultural Preservation Funding - Support Park, Agricultural Preservation, Clean Water and other existing trust funds established for the protection of the State' s land, water, biological resources, agriculture, and special places before they are irreversibly lost, and requests that these funds receive additional funding;