This amendment appears to the one to establish a 90 day residency requirment ,before a poor person from another state  in need of assisted living can come to Virginia and qualify for the auxiliary grant.The auxiliary grant helps fund a  additional amount for the poor this poor person.

The auxiliary grant does not cover the cost of services ,but a lot of providers are willing to except these people ,merely to help them out. Most  from other states are in dier need of  care .Some are homeless and  mentally ill.Some are transients.Some are veterans. At any point this does help supplement my income to my 98 bed facility.It would be a shame to turn these people away,just because they are in another State .

Commit a crime and we will keep you up for 3 to 5 times the money without any hesitation of the cost .

Virginia needs to take other avenues to cut cost ,not in assisted living .I can not believe they cut the little $3.00 per day funding from medicaid .

The current public pay rate is $37.00 per day.

A maximum of $17.00 per day comes auxiliary grant.This rate changes on the amount a person draws from a disability,whether it be social security.In other words if he draws $1000.00 a month ,the additional $170 per month would be auxiliary grant .This would be around $6.00 per day. So the state would be giving up that $1000.00 to save $170.00 .The $1000.00 goes to help support a industry,that does not have the ability to be exported to another country.

In closing the reason stated for this amendment was to save the bed for the poor virginian .I find that hard to believe. I've never turned a poor or a indigent virginian away.Let get real about this .

For the sake of mankind I  do not support the amendment  that requires a 90 day residency from another state before qualifying for the auxiliary grant .This could help slam the doors shut to close for many home in Southwest who are willing to accept the 70% below market pay.And yas we do provide jobs ,pay taxes and most of all take pride and do a pretty good job for a much needed service.

PLEASE STOP THIS AMENDMENT IN IT'S TRACKS .  Thank You for allowing me this oppurturnity to speak from my standpoint and others who wish they could but can not .Many just do not have the opportunity .  Frankie Minor ,Lee County ,Dryden Virginia

We individuals that are apart of the Department of Social Service rap session , that was put in play to address the Governor's Executive order number 14; was unders the impression per minutes and notes that were taken that no regulations were being acted upon until all were reveiwed by the Rap sessions because there was not enough time to go over all the regulations before the  General Assembly began and then it would go through the Noira  stage.

However, this regulation in motion at this time some how escaped the PROCESS. Never-the-less it is essential that the agencies in question be aware that this reg is a discriminatory tool that denies the State of Virginia client's access to affordable housing. It is also a duplication of service because the SSI already assess whether a client is eligible to reside in an Assisted living Facility.

Futhermore, because the assessment tools are basically used for public pay AG receipients, and there is no funding for level cares this make the instrument obselete. Regulations that deal with medical assessments, med-aides, and other medical modes were regs borrowed from the nursing home industry and is too excessive  and burdensome for small business who intent and purpose is to provide housing for the mentallly disabled and low-income populations who would otherwise behomeless if we did not exist. Our existence as a industry is what we are fighting for so we are also asking that we be Called Adult Care  Residence and not under the assisted living facilities umbrella.