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JFAC approves Health & Human Services budget realignment after brief dissent; committee to review detailed enhancement requests later
Summary
The committee approved the Department of Health and Welfare’s reorganization and base realignment and later approved the program maintenance appropriation for Health & Human Services; one lawmaker said he lacked sufficient information and a small number of senators changed or opposed votes.
Boise — The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee approved a departmental reorganization at the Department of Health and Welfare and later set the agency’s program maintenance appropriation during its Jan. 17 meeting, though the votes included a small number of dissenting members who said they wanted more time to review the reorganization and the large transfers involved.
Budget analyst Alex Williamson briefed the committee on the department’s base realignment and the new budget appropriation units, which reflect a reorganization the agency requested. The committee first voted to accept the changes to appropriation unit names and to realign the base; that motion passed on a…
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