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JFAC advances behavioral-health funding package; directs review of CANS assessment and adds DEI-related restrictions
Summary
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a package of behavioral-health supplementals and FY2026 adjustments — including funding to cover delayed Idaho Behavioral Health Plan grants, civil-commitment costs, hospital accounting fund shifts, and a one-time reclassification of the Center of Excellence — and directed the Department of Health and Welfare to study alternatives to the CANS assessment.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a sequence of supplemental appropriations and FY2026 enhancement items for behavioral health and related program language that affects the Department of Health and Welfare’s mental-health and substance-abuse divisions.
Major budget votes and adjustments - Mental Health Services: committee approved a one-time federal appropriation of $6,743,800 to cover Idaho Behavioral Health Plan contract implementation delays (FY2025 re-appropriation to allow use of previously authorized federal grants). Vote recorded in committee as passing. - Psychiatric Hospitalization (civil commitments): committee approved a one-time general-fund appropriation of $2,663,500 for civil-commitment expenditures and community hospitalization (FY2025 supplemental). - State Hospital West and South: committee approved fund-shift adjustments moving some federal funds to dedicated/receipt authority to reflect managed-care accounting changes associated with the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan and MCO payments; net budget impact recorded as zero. - Mental Health Center of Excellence:…
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