Kansas Statutes 39-7,162. Home and community based services savings fund administered by secretary for aging and disability services; certification, transfer and expenditures
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 39-7,162
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Department: means the department of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 39-7,116
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Secretary: means the secretary for children and families, unless otherwise specified. See Kansas Statutes 39-702
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(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.