SENATE BILL 1455
RS31742 / S1455
This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Public Health Services Division provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include a public health infrastructure grant; laboratory operating costs; laboratory information management modernization; a state loan repayment; a Maternal, Infant, and Early Child Home Visiting (MIECHV) program formula grant increase; data modernization; vital records modernization; Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) modernization; vital statistics modernization; funding for additional WIC staff; data processing modernization; immunization awards to public health districts and tribes; adult vaccine provider support; childhood lead poisoning prevention; Alzheimer's and dementia grants; rural physician loan repayment; disease investigation and control; data analytics personnel funding; HIV Care program receipt authority; Ryan White Part B supplemental grant funding; and the additional 2% CEC.
In addition, this bill moves ongoing funding to onetime for multiple programs; removes funding for COVID grant funding; and removes funding for sex education grants. This bill also provides adjustments to the FY 2024 appropriation for Physical Health Services and Laboratory Services. Looking at Table 2 below, adjustments include funding for the HIV Care Program drug rebates, a onetime transfer of personnel costs to operating expenditures, and a dedicated fund adjustment for the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho.
Date | Description |
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03/27 | Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing |
03/27 | Reported Printed; referred to Finance |
03/28 | Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading |
03/29 | Read second time; filed for Third Reading |