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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