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JFAC advances $25.6 million package for Public Health Services; language directs multiple program reviews
Summary
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved enhancement funding and attached language for the Department of Health and Welfare's Division of Public Health Services, adding positions and dollars for program restoration and prevention efforts while ordering cost-benefit and transition reviews for several programs.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on March 12 voted to recommend due-pass for an FY2026 enhancement package for the Department of Health and Welfare's Division of Public Health Services that adds staff and funding for program restoration, prevention efforts and immunization work.
The motion, offered by Representative Charles Furness and revised by Representative Nate Tanner, would add four full-time equivalents and a mix of general, dedicated and federal funds. The substitute motion carried in committee (14 ayes, 4 nays, 2 absent/excused).
The package includes restoration requests across multiple programs called out in the department's packet: suicide prevention, drug-overdose prevention, Alzheimer's and dementia services, the Fit and Fall Proof program, WIC and temporary assistance to needy families. The request also includes multi-year ARPA-funded programs, a request to bolster communicable disease prevention, and a…
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