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Committee frames budget priorities: keep safety net whole, focus upstream on primary care and prevention
Summary
Senate Health and Welfare members discussed budget principles including prioritizing safety-net programs (food banks, DAs/SSAs, SASH), protecting primary care funding during transitions, and favoring prevention and recovery supports while noting constrained fiscal environment; committee asked staff to draft a priorities memo.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee held an extended discussion of budget priorities, emphasizing protecting existing safety-net services, investing in upstream primary care and prevention, and targeting limited resources toward proven or evidence-informed programs.
Committee members said the immediate focus should be on maintaining core services that keep people fed, housed and connected to primary care. Senators repeatedly cited food security programs, home- and community-based services (including SASH and adult day services), designated agencies (DAs) and specialized service agencies (SSAs) as…
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