MONTGOMERY — The Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a record general fund budget that includes a 4% pay raise for state employees.
Representatives approved the spending plan without a dissenting vote. The budget now goes to a conference committee to work out differences between the House and Senate versions.
"We've really recovered a tremendous amount since the downturn of '08," Clouse, a Republican from Ozark, said referencing the period that the general fund shrank down to $1.6 billionMost state agencies also would see a funding increase. Under the House-passed plan, the Alabama Medicaid Agency would get funding to provide 12 months of postpartum care to new mothers.
Medicaid pays for about half of all births in the state because of the mother's income and lack of private insurance. "Sixty days of postpartum healthcare, or even six months, doesn't give healthcare providers, moms or babies the chance to effectively address health issues like getting your blood pressure under control or that postpartum depression that they may experience," Jada Shaffer, the regional director of governmental relations for the American Heart Association, said at a rally last week.
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