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Simon said the Legislature was unable to force the measure into the budget. Under a state Court of Appeals ruling, lawmakers can accept, reject or negotiate the governor’s budget, but cannot add spending on their own.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf the governor is not on board, we can\u2019t add anything without her agreement,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like the Legislature didn\u2019t want to.\u201d<\/p>\n
With only a few days left in the legislative session, Simon said a standalone funding bill is unlikely, also because the governor would probably veto spending that belongs in the budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to give your readers hope,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Nicolette Simmonds, a spokeswoman for Hochul, said the governor has allocated nearly $2 billion in the state\u2019s mental health system since taking office, including hundreds of millions of dollars aimed specifically at services for young people. The settlement, said said, \u201cprovides us with a framework\u201d for community-based Medicaid care that responds to children and families.<\/p>\n
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The budget did include a 2.7% inflationary increase for providers, which Zaloga said offers \u201cmodest relief\u201d by helping organizations stay afloat amid rising costs. Even so, she and other advocates say it prevents rate cuts rather than expanding care.<\/p>\n
Rather than seeking the full allocation, advocates are now focused on lawmakers passing a narrower bill that would improve coordination and data collection for children with complex needs. It has advanced in the Assembly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are really hopeful to get that to the floor,\u201d\u00a0Zaloga said.<\/p>\n
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A court-appointed independent monitor, Suzanne Fields, is overseeing the state\u2019s compliance with the court settlement. Advocates said she has not publicly weighed in on whether New York is on track.<\/p>\n
For families, the planning timeline offers little comfort. The system, as Simon described it, remains \u201cat square one\u201d for many children. Advocates say the real test will come in next year\u2019s budget, when they hope lawmakers and the governor will finally fund the care the state has already promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s enacted budget left out the roughly $200 million in youth behavioral health funding sought after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,2953,844,9,24,12,63,1165],"class_list":["post-252030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-health","tag-latestnews","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-state-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}