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Committee hears substance-abuse budget, opioid settlement spending and a federal administrative-cap issue
Summary
The Division of Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention described opioid settlement allocations, Millennium Fund awards and a federal cap that constrains administrative use of block-grant funds. The department proposes fund-source shifts to comply with a 5% administrative cap while retaining staffing.
Analyst Alex Williamson briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on the Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention program (budget pages 2-085). The division administers statewide prevention and treatment services and was funded by several federal and state sources in recent years.
Williamson said recent appropriations included an $8,300,000 one-time COVID-relief appropriation in FY2022 for enhanced substance-abuse activities, an $8,000,000 State Opioid Response (SOR) appropriation in FY2023 that was made ongoing into FY2024, and a FY2024 one-time $2,500,000 for substance abuse prevention. In FY2025 the division received a $1,600,000…
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