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Committee debate spotlights dispute over possible use of a $500 million emergency fund for healthcare
Summary
Members debated whether substitute SB3'a healthcare affordability bill could direct $200 million from the governor's $500 million federal response fund to non-emergency health programs; critics called that a repurposing of emergency dollars.
Substitute Senate Bill 3, the committee's healthcare affordability measure, produced one of the meeting's most extended exchanges April 17 as members questioned whether up to $200 million in the bill could be taken from a $500 million fund the legislature previously set aside for emergency federal cuts.
Representative Corpus framed the issue by recalling that the legislature had approved a $500 million "federal cuts response" fund (House Bill 803, enacted last November) for narrowly defined emergency purposes. She asked…
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