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Senate panel flags roughly $50M shortfall in DHHS budget, agrees to remove 95 zero-funded positions
Summary
Members of the Senate Appropriations — Human Resources Division reviewed Department of Health and Human Services budget materials, discussed underfunding across salaries, operations and grants (roughly $50–67 million by department estimates), and signaled agreement to remove 95 positions that remain in the system but are zero-funded.
The Senate Appropriations — Human Resources Division on March 5 reviewed Department of Health and Human Services budget documents and the department's estimate that the agency's base budget remains underfunded by tens of millions of dollars.
Donna Auckland, the department's chief financial officer, told the committee, “Last biennium, we were under funded 13,900,000.0 in operations and 19 and a half million in our salaries.” She said the governor's executive budget had restored roughly half of that amount and that the House further adjusted the agency's base, leaving an operational underfund estimate the department described as about $16.95 million and a separate $30 million underfund in the salary line. Auckland and committee members also cited a roughly $20 million…
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