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JFAC reviews substance-abuse budget: opioid grants, Millennium funds and a federal administrative-cap correction action
Summary
Committee heard the Division of Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention budget, including ongoing opioid-grant authority, Millennium Fund allocations for recovery centers and a department request to reassign fund sources to comply with a federal 5% administrative-cost cap on the substance use block grant.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee reviewed the Department of Health and Welfare's Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention budget, discussing multi-year federal opioid funding, Millennium Income Fund allocations for recovery services and a corrective-action issue with federal grant-administration caps.
Key funding items
Analysts said an $8,000,000 state opioid-response grant was approved earlier and made ongoing in FY 2024. The division also received ongoing enhancements tied to Millennium Income Fund dollars: $1,350,000 to support community-based recovery centers and $250,000 to sustain the Idaho Drug Free Youth program.
Federal corrective action and proposed fund swaps
The department said federal guidance for the Substance Use Block Grant capped administrative (personnel) spending at 5%…
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