Bill > HB5523

This bill makes supplemental appropriations for various state departments and agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022. The key provisions include: - Appropriating over $1.2 billion in federal and other funds, with the majority ($1.2 billion) going to the Department of Health and Human Services for COVID-19 response efforts such as adult foster care relief, child welfare payments, epidemiology and lab capacity expansion, health care worker recruitment/retention, and nursing home infection control. - Providing $10 million in federal funds to plan and design a new state public health and environmental science laboratory. - Allocating $250,000 in federal funds to the Department of Education for work-based learning health services academies. - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to purchase and distribute COVID-19 testing supplies and equipment to schools, and prohibiting the state or local governments from confiscating or redistributing these supplies without consent. - Establishing several new grant programs, including for nursing home room conversions, nursing home respirators, hospital airborne pathogen control, and homeless shelter repairs. The bill also includes various provisions governing the expenditure and reporting of the appropriated funds.