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Panel debates SNAP match and Medicaid eligibility changes; Idaho Behavioral Health Plan fund shifts advance
Summary
The joint committee debated a package of SNAP and Medicaid eligibility funding shifts tied to HR1 and HB345; the SNAP/federal-match adjustment package failed in the House committee while supplemental shifts tied to the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan and psychiatric hospitalization passed.
Legislative analysts and committee members spent a lengthy portion of the session on Department of Health and Welfare budget items, including SNAP administrative-match changes under HR1, Medicaid eligibility-system updates, and fund-source adjustments tied to the Idaho Behavioral Health Plan.
Alex Williamson, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the committee HR1 (referred to in the hearing as the "big beautiful bill") changed the federal/state administrative split for SNAP from roughly 50/50 to 25% federal/75% state for some administrative costs. Williamson said the agency submitted enhancement requests to account for that change and for new work requirements and system updates required…
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