Agenda - 05-19-20; 6-b - Coronavirus Relief Funding Summary Report and Approval of County Plan

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14 House PCS 1043 Page S o $15M to establish the COVID-19 Teaching Hospitals Relief Fund for grants to hospitals classified as teaching hospitals by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. o $15M to establish the COVID-19 General Hospitals Relief Fund to hospitals not eligible for grants from NCHF or the COVID-19 Teaching Hospitals Relief Fund. o $2.25M to Division of Social Services (DHHS) for serving children in foster care during the COVID-19 emergency in the amount of$100 per child per month for April through June 2020. o $15M to DACS for animal depopulation and disposal. o $5M to Commerce for stimulus investment in Visit NC to develop safe travel concepts and strategies and research tools and analysis needed for implementation. o $125M for Golden LEAF for small business loan assistance. o $9M to DIT for funding the remaining portion of all qualifying GREAT program applications. • Section 4.1. —Subsection(a) appropriates funds received from federal grants authorized under the COVID-19 Recovery Legislation. Subsection (b) provides an estimate of North Carolina's allocations from the COVID-19 Recovery Legislation to be deposited in the State's Treasury and administered by State agencies. Subsection(c)specifies that no funds in this act or the State Board of Elections budget shall be used as a matching requirement for federal funds to meet election needs, but instead specifies that it is the intent of the General Assembly to address the State's additional elections needs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic in separate legislation. • Section 4.2—Provides guidelines for the$125,000,000 to Golden LEAF for the purpose of making emergency loans to small businesses adversely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in North Carolina. • Section 4.3—Directs OSBM to establish a time-limited Pandemic Recovery Office to oversee and coordinate federal funds for COVID-19 recovery. • Section 4.4. —Requires OSBM to release certain grant funds authorized in the 2017 Budget. • Section 4.5 —Authorizes DHHS to provide Medicaid coverage for COVID-19 Testing for certain uninsured individuals during the declared nationwide public health emergency period where the federal medical assistance percentage is 100%. • Section 4.6—Requires DHHS to provide a 5%increase in the Medicaid Fee-For-Service rates paid to all provider types by the Division of Health Benefits. The rate increase will be effective 3/1/20, and will expire on the earlier of. (i) the date the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency expires, (ii) the date Executive order 116 expires or is rescinded, or(iii) 3/31/21. • Section 4.7— Specifies that certain provisions of State law pertaining to provider enrollment shall not apply to the Medicaid and Health Choice Programs from 3/l/2020 through duration of the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency, in order to implement to temporary provider enrollment authorized under the recently approved Medicaid 1135 waiver. • Section 4.8—Eliminates requirement that an individual must have received a Supplement Security Income(SSI)payment to qualify for the Disabled Adult Child passalong in the Medicaid program, no later than 6/1/20. • Section 4.9 —Uses increased availability from federal Child Care and Development Fund Block Grant funds for the 2019-2020 fiscal year to address immediate child care needs resulting from the coronavirus emergency.