LCO No. 1601 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 165 January Session, 2019 LCO No. 1601 Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS Introduced by: SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist. AN ACT CONCERNING THE APPROPRIATION OF MEDICAID FUNDS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: That the general statutes be amended to require that both the state's 1 portion and the federal government's portion of Medicaid funding be 2 appropriated and included in the calculation of general budget 3 expenditures for purposes of determining the constitutional spending 4 cap. 5 Statement of Purpose: To require that Medicaid funds be "gross appropriated" and included as general budget expenditures for the purpose of determining the constitutional spending cap.