Committee hears JAC explanation; tribal Medicaid shortfall estimate revised from $58M to $41M
Joint Appropriations Committee staff told the Select Committee on Tribal Relations that an exception request for $58 million in spending authority was based on an overestimate; updated federal figures reduce the needed authority to about $41 million and JAC intends to accept the new estimate to grant spending authority to the executive branch and the Department of Health.
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Representative Bair, chairing the Joint Appropriations Committee’s presentation to the Select Committee on Tribal Relations, told the panel that an exception request for $58 million in additional spending authority was rejected but has since been recalculated based on newly released federal numbers.
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