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House Human Services advances amendment shifting prevention allocations to opioid abatement fund, asks Health Department and OSAC to review
Summary
The committee considered an Appropriations Committee amendment to H.660 that moves four previously recommended substance misuse prevention items into the opioid abatement special fund, adds $640,000 to that fund, and asks the Department of Health—with input from OSAC—to review what should remain in the prevention fund versus the opioid settlement fund.
House Human Services Chair opened Tuesday’s session to consider an Appropriations Committee amendment to H.660 that shifts four programs from the substance misuse prevention fund into the opioid abatement special fund and asks the Department of Health to review appropriations with input from the Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee (OSAC).
The Appropriations Committee member presenting the amendment said the committee made two technical and two substantive changes and moved certain items because the prevention fund was oversubscribed. "Our committee really is not familiar with substance misuse prevention programming," the committee member said, arguing that the Department of…
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