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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.
Committee members said the additional wording is intended to allow the funds to be used more broadly for testing and response if an outbreak of another disease, such as measles, occurs. The committee recorded that the Senate-modified dollar figure would remain unchanged.
A committee member asked whether additional funding would be provided to cover other diseases; staff responded that no additional money had been discussed and the amount would stay at the level shown in the Senate modification. The transcript records the figure as "250" but does not specify whether that denotes dollars, thousands, or another unit; committee staff said they would provide the precise appropriation language and amounts the next day.
Action: Committee accepted the Senate-modified tuberculosis item and directed staff to add broader infectious-disease language while keeping the Senate-modified funding level.
