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Committee reviews H660 opioid settlement allocations, warns fund is finite and sets vote for next week
Summary
A legislative committee examined H660, a bill to distribute opioid settlement funds, as Joint Fiscal Office staff outlined competing OSAC and health department recommendations, the fund's limited balance and deficit projections, and a plan to vote by the end of next week; organizations not represented by the department may submit brief written statements.
Nolan Langwell, with the Joint Fiscal Office, presented a reconciliation spreadsheet to a legislative committee on H660, the bill governing distribution of opioid settlement funds, and warned the fund is finite as members weighed program recommendations from the Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee (OSAC) against the Department of Health's proposal.
"What I have before you, this is a spreadsheet that I put together for the committee," Langwell said, explaining the sheet shows existing ongoing projects, new requests and a right-hand column listing prior appropriations (including entries cited as Act 113 (2024), Act 178 (2024) and Act 22 (2023)). He said detailed spend-versus-obligation numbers are maintained in a separate health department report.
The discussion focused on how much money is actually available to allocate. Langwell summarized his modeling: the state receives…
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