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Committee reviews mental health budget requests, federal grants and transfer exemptions for Idaho Behavioral Health Plan
Summary
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee heard presentations on the Division of Mental Health Services’ budget, federal grant timing for the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan and agency requests to lift program-transfer limits for 2025–2026.
Alex Williamson, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee the Division of Mental Health Services budget includes separate children’s and adult programs and that several federal grants and one-time appropriations have driven recent year-to-year changes in appropriations.
The discussion focused on several agency requests: a $6,700,000 supplemental to allow the department to access federal grants tied to the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan (IBHP), an ongoing federal-funded enhancement of $261,400 for operating costs tied to grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and transfer-exemption requests to relax statutory program-transfer limits in Idaho Code 67-35-11 for fiscal 2025 and 2026.
“[The IBHP] was originally slated to go live in 2022. However, due to some delays, it actually went…
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