Budget Testimony to Senate Finance on HHSC and DFPS

On February 21, three of our policy team members are testifying to the Senate Finance Committee about Article II of the proposed state budget.

Kate Murphy, Director of Child Protection Policy, is testifying on ways to keep families together and safely keep kids out of foster care as well as ways to support and protect children who do enter foster care.

Diana Forester, Director of Health Policy, is testifying on ways to support maternal health in the state budget.

Alec Mendoza, Senior Policy Associate for Health, is testifying on ways to ensure that children who are eligible for Medicaid health insurance are able to enroll and ways to ensure toddlers with disabilities are able to receive Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) services.