2016 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 39 MENTALLY ILL, INCAPACITATED AND DEPENDENT PERSONS; SOCIAL WELFARE
Article 7 SOCIAL WELFARE
39-7,162 Home and community based services savings fund administered by secretary for aging and disability services; certification, transfer and expenditures.
39-7,162. Home and community based services savings fund administered by secretary for aging and disability services; certification, transfer and expenditures. (a) (1) There is hereby established the home and community based services savings fund in the state treasury which shall be administered by the secretary for aging and disability services. All savings resulting from transferring individuals from the institutions to home and community based services shall be deposited in this fund. All expenditures from the home and community based services savings fund shall be in accordance with the provisions of appropriation acts upon vouchers approved by the secretary for aging and disability services or the secretary's designee.
(2) Whenever an individual, who is residing in an institution, transfers to home and community based services, the secretary for aging and disability services shall determine the savings attributable to such transfer and shall certify the amount or amounts of such savings to the director of accounts and reports. Upon receipt of each such certification, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer the amount or amounts specified in such certification from the funds and accounts specified to the home and community based services savings fund of the Kansas department for aging and disability services in accordance with such certification. The secretary for aging and disability services shall transmit a copy of each such certification to the director of the budget and to the director of legislative research.
(b) The secretary shall certify to the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight at the beginning of each calendar quarter the amount of savings resulting from transferring individuals from institutions to home and community based services that have been transferred during the preceding calendar quarter to the home and community based services savings fund from each institution during the preceding quarter.
History: L. 2008, ch. 168, § 4; L. 2013, ch. 94, § 2; July 1.
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