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    OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

    207 STATE HOUSE


    SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 62706

    BRUCE RAUNER
    GOVERNOR

    From:
    To:
    Date:
    Re:

    Tim Nuding, Director, Governors Office of Management and Budget


    Agency Directors
    April 11, 2016
    Analysis of HB 6553/SB 3418 Funding Health and Human Services

    Because of the majoritys failure to enact a balanced budget, the state is running out of money
    for Fiscal Year 2016. At this point, appropriation bills that are not tied to revenue, spending
    reductions or savings-generating reforms are nothing more than IOUs that drive our state deeper
    into debt and exacerbate the bill backlog. That is why such irresponsible spending plans
    continue to face bipartisan opposition in the House of Representatives.
    While many of your agencies faithfully entered into contracts with human services providers
    believing House and Senate Democrats would at some point fulfill their constitutional obligation
    to enact a balanced budget, those contracts are legally subject to appropriations. Even so, the
    administration strongly supports finding a way to actually pay providers for Fiscal Year 2016
    services rendered not just hand them an IOU with a ticket to the back of a months-long bill
    backlog.
    Late last week, House Republican Leader Jim Durkin and Senate Republican Leader Christine
    Radogno introduced legislation to help fund critical areas of health and human services. Unlike
    recent attempts to spend money the state doesnt have, HB 6553/SB 3418 would be tied to
    enactment of comprehensive pension reform, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in nearterm taxpayer savings and billions more in the years ahead.
    HB 6553/SB 3418 would provide needed funding for:

    seniors in the Community Care Program;


    veterans;
    those with mental health issues and developmental disabilities;
    homeless youth, homeless vets and homelessness prevention in general;
    programs like Adult Redeploy that are critical to our criminal justice reform efforts;
    addiction treatment, sexual assault services and prevention;
    the Special Olympics;

    Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services; and


    much more.

    The Governors Office of Management and Budget would recommend the Governor sign this
    health and human services funding package if it came to his desk. We encourage you to reach
    out to providers with whom a budget-contingent contract has been signed to let them know the
    Governor supports passage of either HB 6553 or SB 3418 alongside comprehensive pension
    reform to pay for it. The sooner this package becomes law, the sooner those providers can be
    paid.

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