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Hepatitis C testing/cure program asks committee to preserve state funding not intended to be supplanted by opioid settlement grants
Summary
Representatives of Imagine Hope told the committee the amended FY25 language replaces a $375,000 state appropriation with other funds; the program asked that state funding be restored because opioid settlement dollars awarded to the program were never intended to supplant day‑to‑day state support for the hepatitis C testing and cure initiative.
TJ Caplan, representing Imagine Hope, briefed the committee on a hepatitis C testing and treatment program that operates in behavioral‑health sites around the state and asked that the committee retain $375,000 in state funding in the amended FY25 package.
Caplan said Imagine Hope has worked in 32…
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