More detailed numbers are now available on the 2011 supplemental agreement between the House and Senate.  The conference report would reduce NGFS expenditures by $242.2 million and make fund transfers in the amount of $125.2 million, to reduce the 2009-11 shortfall by a total of $367.4 million. (The House bill would close the shortfall by a total of $345.6 million, and the Senate by $376.9 million.)

Some items of interest:

• Basic Health Plan (BHP) enrollment would be restricted as of March 1, 2011 to those who qualify under a Medicaid waiver, and $6 million would be transferred from the Life Sciences Discovery Fund to help pay for those remaining enrolled.
• Due to the BHP enrollment restrictions, 1700 children would be transferred to Apple Health for Kids.
• Children’s Health Program income eligibility would be reduced to 200 percent of the federal poverty level (from 300 percent), effective April.
• Funding for the Naturalization Program would be reduced instead of eliminated.
• Disability Lifeline grants would be reduced by an additional 20.7 percent beginning in March.
• Telephone Assistance Program funds ($2.5 million) would be used to fund Economic Services Administration call center operations.
• Medical interpreter services would not be eliminated.
• Medicare Part D co-pays would no longer be reimbursed for clients eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, begining Jan. 1, 2011.
• The K-4 staffing ratio enhancement would be eliminated as of Feb. 1, 2011, and it would be reduced retrospectively, back to the beginning of the 2010-11 school year.
• Instead of the “tuition transfer for financial aid” provision that was in the Senate bill (and that Kriss described here), the conference report includes a “local funds for financial aid” provision in the same amount.
• Non-union state employee compensation would be reduced by 3 percent.  Elected officials, judges, state troopers, and employees of higher ed institutions, the state printer, and the marine division of the Dept. of Transportation would be exempt.
• The fund transfers are mostly the same as those in the bills that passed the House and Senate, but the conference report would transfer $3 million from the Treasurer Service Account.

The chart below shows the expenditure changes by budget area, compared to the House and Senate bills.