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Substance‑abuse budget includes opioid grants and proposed fund swaps to meet federal administrative cap
Summary
The Department of Health and Welfare outlined opioid settlement and Millennium Fund spending and proposed shifting fund sources to comply with a federal 5% administrative/ personnel cap on the substance‑use block grant.
Alex Williamson presented the Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention budget to the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee, outlining recent one‑time and ongoing appropriations and a proposed fund‑source swap to comply with federal rules.
The division received an $8,000,000 state opioid response grant that was made ongoing, and FY24 included $2,500,000 one‑time prevention funds and $8,300,000 in COVID relief funds in earlier years. For FY25, the legislature appropriated $1,600,000 ongoing—about $1,350,000 of that was Millennium Income Fund dollars for community‑based recovery centers and…
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