Earlier regarding the appointment of the medicaid director and so we'll skip to page three eighty four is another house only provision that requires C H A S to require or direct C H A S to require that the annual medicaid billing unit limits for services that are managed by the O M N C S to be based on the fiscal year beginning July first twenty fifteen provided there is no fiscal impact to making that standardization and that concludes the medicaid provisions. SPEAKER CHANGES Well thank you Ms. Hill. Thank you very much for your presentations and now we'll open the floor for questions from members Senator Beranger I recognize you. SPEAKER CHANGES Thank you Mr. Chair I have two questions at least at first or two topics to cover. The first one regards the transfer of the summer foods service program. Could someone tell me, I'm assuming that that's for children who ordinarily are a part of the school food program that then covers them in the summer am I accurate or could someone tell me what that's really about? SPEAKER CHANGES Ms. Thompson. SPEAKER CHANGES Ms. Thomas fiscal research. Senator Beranger that is a summer...that program does cover children who are younger than school age all the way up to I think age eighteen or twenty one. And it's currently...it was transferred more than ten years ago from DPI over to the division of public health and this was a floor amendment to have it transferred back to DPI. I think at the time when it was transferred years ago there were not very many schools that wanted to do the program. But now more schools are willing to offer the summer eating program. SPEAKER CHANGES ?? Now that I understand and I did have a basic idea about it you mentioned that it's being transferred to DPI. How will that work? I have some concerns on how they'll be able to implement it is there a plan or program for this? SPEAKER CHANGES Well it's not just for children under school a...it's for children from age zero if you wanted to take a baby with you to a site up to age eighteen. It's usually administered by local churches or other non profits who want to offer the program during the summer months but also a lot of school districts that they choose to be open and offer summer feeding at their sites. And the way the intention is as I under...we didn't have any background on ?? was done on house floor in speaking to the people at public health afterward they were in agreement with the transfer so the entire transfer would just be...I don't think that they intend to transfer the employees. The positions would go but the current employees would stay over at public health. It is a hundred percent federally funded program so the federal allocation will be transferred to DPI. SPEAKER CHANGES Communicating concerns about this transfer from one to the other. SPEAKER CHANGES I have no knowledge of that. SPEAKER CHANGES Follow up on a different topic. SPEAKER CHANGES Yes go ahead. SPEAKER CHANGES Thank you Mr. Chair. I have made several comments in the past about portability of medicaid and I noticed in on page three hundred and eighty two there's at least an attempt to allow for the movement of certain medicaid recipients for that to portable from county to county. The county residents. Does this take care of it finally or are there limitations with this? I thought the department of health and human services was taking care of it internally. I'm just...I'm just trying to get my head around this and see if we finally have a resolution of this portability cause there mentally well there's lots of people that need to be able to take that those benefits and move from county to county whether it's adoption or foster care or mental health or whatever. SPEAKER CHANGES Who would like to tackle that? ?? Blacklidge? SPEAKER CHANGES I'm Blacklidge ?? drafting. This language is intended to allow that portability that transfer. There may be some technical adjustments to the language. We haven't heard back from the department on exactly what those might be but the idea behind it is to allow that portability. SPEAKER CHANGES ?? Well I certainly support the portability and I have advocated for that strongly but this because it's the nineteen fifteen BC waiver will involve the elemy MCA. Are they on board or is this...I want this to happen. I want it to finally get done have they weighed in. Is there a plan to finally implement this so we can check this off and move...