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Votes at a glance: key JFAC appropriations and motions from Friday’s session

2372045 · February 21, 2025
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Summary

A rundown of formal motions and recorded outcomes the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee considered Friday, including amounts, vote tallies and next steps where the committee recorded them.

Below are the committee’s formal motions, the motion text as read into the record, and the recorded outcomes as shown in the committee transcript. Where the transcript recorded roll-call tallies, those tallies are reported here. When the transcript named movers or seconders, that information is included; if the record did not name a mover, the field is marked "not specified." The committee forwarded multiple measures with due-pass recommendations; the entries below reflect the committee’s recorded votes.

1) Idaho Public Television (FY2026 maintenance): add $42,400 replacement items and $300,000 network operations center replacement (total $342,400 general fund). Motion passed. Tally reported: Senate 9 ayes, 1 nay; House 7 ayes, 3 nays; Grand total 16 ayes, 4 nays. Mover: Senator Galloway. Second: Representative Galvez.

2) Soil and Water Conservation Commission (FY2026): add $40,500 replacement vehicle and $1,000,000 one time for water-quality agricultural grants (total $1,040,500 general fund). Motion passed. Recorded outcome: Senate 9 ayes, 1 nay; House 9 ayes, 1 nay; Grand total 18 ayes, 2 nays. Mover: Representative Miller. Second: Senator Burkey.

3) Mental-health/behavioral-health package (multiple items rolled into an enhancement bill): (a) Idaho Behavioral Health Plan FY2025 one-time federal appropriation $6,743,800 — passed, 15 ayes, 5 nays; (b) FY2026 IBHP federal increase $261,400 — passed, 18 ayes, 0 nays; (c) transfer-exemption language for mental-health programs (Idaho Code 67-35-11) — adopted by unanimous consent. Movers and seconds: as recorded in the transcript; some motions were read by staff and moved on the floor (mover not specified for every line); seconders included Representative Furness, Senator Cook, and others.

4) Psychiatric hospitalization supplemental (community hospitalization civil commitments):…

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