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Health and Welfare seeks fund swaps and reports opioid and prevention funding; federal cap drives accounting change
Summary
Department officials told the committee they want to swap fund sources to comply with a federal administrative cap on the substance-use block grant and reported ongoing opioid-response dollars and one-time opioid-settlement spending for recovery services and prevention.
Alex Williamson, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, presented the substance abuse treatment and prevention budget and noted large trustee-and-benefit spending in fiscal year 2024.
She told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that the division received an $8,000,000 appropriation for the state opioid response grant in FY 2023 that was made ongoing in FY 2024, and that the FY 2025 budget included $1,600,000 ongoing — $1,300,000 of which supported Millennium Fund initiatives such as community-based recovery centers and $250,000 for the Idaho Drug Free Youth program.
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