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Committee asks staff to add language so tuberculosis funds can cover other infectious diseases; funding level unchanged
Summary
Committee members accepted a Senate-modified tuberculosis funding item and asked staff to expand the language so funds could also be used for other diseases; members said the funding level would remain at the dollar amount shown in the Senate modification, though the transcript did not specify units.
The Ways and Means committee accepted a Senate-modified tuberculosis funding measure and asked staff to add language clarifying that the appropriation may be used to assist health departments responding to other infectious diseases, committee members said at the meeting.
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