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To: Project ABLE (AIDS Budget Legislative Effort)
From: Mary Ann Hart
Re: Conference committee budget
Date: June 24, 2010
The conference committee budget for the state of Massachusetts has been released as there is good news for the HIV/AIDS Line Item (4512-0103). The conference committee adopted the higher House funding level of $34.8 million! This is what Project ABLE requested.
You can find out more about the budget here (PDF).
However, because Congress has not yet approved so-called "FMAP" funding that the state was counting on, cuts will have to be made throughout the budget if that funding does not materialize. The conference committee budget funds the HIV/AIDS line item in the following way:
- 95.022% from the General Fund
- 4.978% from the FMAP Budget Relief Fund
This means that there could be nearly a 5% AIDS Line Item funding cut if the FMAP is NOT approved by Congress. This is a budget reduction of nearly $1.7 million!
Sen. Scott Brown is the ONLY member of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation OPPOSED to FMAP funding. If you have not contacted him - PLEASE DO SO TODAY. He is a crucial vote in the Senate!
Contact Scott Brown:
- DC office 202.224.4543
- Boston office 617.565.3170
You can also to this link and click on Leave a Comment.
In addition, please plan to join other groups to protest his position on FMAP funding this coming Monday, June 28, 12 noon outside his office at 2400 JFK Federal Building in Boston! A flyer is attached and please circulate it to your other networks and get people to contact him as well!
The bottom line is that there will be a very substantial reduction in HIV/AIDS funding if Congress DOES NOT approve the FMAP funding!
To find out who your elected officials are, you can call your city or town hall, or visit the state's online election information web site.
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