LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Colleen Kochanek, Lobbyist, The Arc of NC Erika - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Colleen Kochanek, Lobbyist, The Arc of NC Erika Hagensen, Consultant, The Arc of NC Nicole Jorwic, Director of Disability Rights, The Arc Agenda Your Advocacy Matters 2016 Legislative Update Future Political
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Colleen Kochanek, Lobbyist, The Arc of NC Erika Hagensen, Consultant, The Arc of NC Nicole Jorwic, Director of Disability Rights, The Arc
Agenda • Your Advocacy Matters • 2016 Legislative Update • Future Political Landscape in NC • VOTE! • Stay Connected • Federal Focus: Employment First, Implementation HCBS and WIOA
Your Advocacy Matters! Making good things happen: • IDD Caucus • 250 Innovations slots • New laws Stopping bad bills: • Teacher assault bill
General Assembly Highlights • Uniform Law for Adult Guardianship (HB 817) • Medicaid Waiver Protections for Military Families (HB 842) • Free state issued ID for individuals with IDD (HB 1033) • Medicaid Transformation Modifications (S 838)
NCGA continued Budget Study bills • Strategic plan for • 250 additional Innovation Behavioral Health Services waiver slots • Governor’s Task Force • Innovations Waiver: waitlist Reserve Fund ($20 Mil) and HCBS implementation • LME/MCO Single Stream • Adequacy of Existing funding Medicaid Rates Paid for • TBI Funding Residential Treatment Services
We need your voice and experience North Carolina • 23 retiring • More seats are in play than we expected • Expect leadership changes What can you do? • Vote! • Reach out • Educate
Your voice, your vote • Recent changes in NC Voting Law • Partial reinstatement of early voting • Same day registration • Out of precinct voting • Voter ID not needed • Know your rights!
Updates: • Innovations waiver • Deb Goda here all day and offering a full presentation • 1115 Waiver • LME/MCO consolidation • ABLE Act
Stay connected The Arc of NC • Facebook • Twitter • www.arcnc.org • Action alerts • Your local chapter The Arc US • Capitol Insider • Action Alerts • www.thearc.org
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