LAST LOOK - Schuyler Center’s Last Look at the NYS 2022-23 Budget

Among the opportunities missed: the State failed to restore the State contribution to family-strengthening preventive services to the statutorily-required 65% share, continuing a reduction first implemented in 2008 due to the fiscal strains of the Great Recession. [...] The legislation moved misdemeanors to Family Court, and created a new Youth Part of the criminal court for felonies, with the presumption that non-violent felonies would be moved to Family Court, unless the district attorney files a motion within 30 days showing “extraordinary circumstances” that the case should remain in the Youth Part. [...] Specifically, the Final Budget directs $670 million of re-programmed federal stimulus and CCDBG funds (added to the ongoing subsidy funds noted above) to expand the eligibility for child care subsidies to 300% of the federal poverty line (FPL), increase the market rate to the 80th percentile, continue to limit family copayments to 10% of income over FPL, continue 12-month eligibility for subsidies. [...] Transfer of Oversight of Health Professions Final Budget The Final Budget rejects the Executive Budget proposal to transfer the oversight authority for licensed health professions from the State Education Department to the Department of Health. [...] Medicaid Spending Cap Final Budget The Final Budget extends the Medicaid spending cap and changes the metric used to calculate the spending cap from the ten-year rolling average of Consumer Price Index to the five-year rolling average of Medicaid spending projections within the National Health Expenditure Accounts produced by the Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service.