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Committee weighs behavioral health funding: block grant salary change, SUD vouchers and jail expansion
Summary
Members discussed moving behavioral-health salaries into a block grant, correcting Governor Armstrong’s intended line-item funding, and adding money to substance-use-disorder (SUD) vouchers including a proposal to expand services into jails.
The House Appropriations HR section spent substantial time on behavioral-health funding within HB1012, considering a department-proposed block grant for salaries, corrected executive-budget line items for two programs and proposals to expand substance-use disorder vouchers into regional jails.
Donna Auckland, the department chief financial officer, said the department added language to an amendment "to talk about the amount that the department is underfunded in salaries" and explained the intent to move salary dollars onto a single block-grant line with quarterly reporting to the legislature if the committee approves…
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