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Millennium Fund: JFAC approves $1.29M supplemental for youth assessment centers but larger FY2026 Millennium Fund package fails on House floor
Summary
The committee approved a FY2025 supplemental to juvenile corrections for youth assessment centers but did not pass the larger FY2026 Millennium Fund package after House opposition; the package included prevention, after-school and school resource officer funding.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a $1,291,001 fiscal-year-2025 supplemental from Idaho’s Millennium Income Fund to support youth assessment centers linked with the Department of Juvenile Corrections. Committee materials and analysts said that the supplemental continues a multi-year effort begun in prior sessions to stand up youth assessment centers and move them toward local sustainability.
Senator Bierke, co-chair of the Millennium Fund Committee, summarized the group’s intent to return funding to prevention-oriented efforts tied to the original tobacco-settlement priorities, emphasizing surveys and school-focused campaigns to address youth vaping and opioid (fentanyl) risks. The supplemental motion to juvenile corrections passed on recorded roll calls and was accepted with unanimous consent for the related appropriation language.
Later in the meeting, JFAC considered…
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