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House HR panel reviews HHS budget; members ask for block-grant language, reporting and agency-wide salary adjustment
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee HR section discussed amendments to the Health and Human Services budget including a proposed block grant that would move agency salaries into one line, added reporting requirements, and an agency‑wide reduction request to reflect unaddressed salary funding shortfalls.
The House Appropriations Committee HR section on Feb. 19 considered amendments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget that would move most salary dollars into a single block grant and add quarterly reporting requirements.
Donna Auckland, chief financial officer for the Department of Health and Human Services, told the committee she had handed out “all of the department’s amendments” and pointed the panel to a change in section 4 that would permit the department to transfer rolled‑up revenues into the salaries line if “we have revenue producing…
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