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Advocates urge restoring combined HIV and harm-reduction budget language, ask to continue $340,000 funding
Summary
AIDS service organizations testified the governor's FY27 budget splits HIV/AIDS and harm-reduction funds into separate lines, which would prevent flexible use across both services; they asked the committee to restore prior combined language and continue a $340,000 funding level approved in FY26.
Gail Zatz, speaking for AIDS service organizations, told the committee the administration's budget separates HIV/AIDS services (section E312) from harm-reduction services (section E312.1), and that change would stop funds in the harm-reduction line from being used for HIV services. "They put the pots of money that have some harm reduction related to them in the next set the new section," Zatz said, adding that "you can't really evenly split them unless we rework the whole..."
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