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Committee backs VINE, CISO and partial relocation funding for Attorney General; funds added for Medicaid Inspector General oversight
Summary
The General Government Budget Committee approved committee-level funding direction to restore VINE support, require cybersecurity staffing per SB 291, add partial relocation money for the Attorney General's Office and support increased staffing for the Office of Medicaid Inspector General after testimony on recoveries.
The House Committee on General Government Budget approved committee recommendations to fund the Attorney General's office for cybersecurity and VINE operations, authorized partial relocation funds and supported expanded resources for the Office of Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) after testimony on recoveries.
Ben Foster and other committee members discussed the Attorney General's budgetary needs, including $248,322 previously appropriated toward the VINE system and additional requests to finish procurement and operations. "We have been told at the end of September we have to move," Ben Foster, executive director of the Board of…
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