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JFAC shifts small Health & Welfare line items: $160,000 and $240,000 reclassified between expenditure categories
Summary
Committee approved two fiscal corrections in the Department of Health and Welfare: $160,000 moved from trustee and benefit payments to operating expenditures for substance abuse treatment and prevention, and a $240,000 adjustment in the physical health services program tied to the central tumor registry fund; both motions passed unanimously.
The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee on Jan. 17 approved two technical corrections in the Department of Health and Welfare budget to reclassify funds between expenditure categories.
Janet Jessup, Legislative Services budget and policy analyst, said the department had two amounts accidentally placed in trustee and benefit payments that must be moved to operating expenditures because the monies are paid to third parties via contract and Idaho's appropriation rules treat contract payments as operating expenditures. "Because of the limitations placed on the Department of Health and Welfare, they cannot move monies out of trustee and benefit payments. So this request has been brought to the legislature," Jessup told the committee.
Representative Price moved the first correction for fiscal year 2025 in the substance abuse treatment and prevention program: a reduction of $160,000 from the Idaho Millennium Income Fund in trustee and benefit payments and an increase of $160,000 in operating expenditures. Senator Bierke seconded; the motion passed on a unanimous roll call (20 ayes, 0 nays).
Representative Price then moved a related correction for the physical health services program: a reduction of $240,000 from the Central Tumor Registry fund for operating expenditures (as described in the packet). Senator Bierke seconded; the motion passed on a unanimous roll call (20 ayes, 0 nays).
Committee members characterized these items as technical reclassifications needed to align appropriation categories with how the department spends through contracts.
