Bill > S1268

This bill appropriates approximately $5.08 billion to the Department of Health and Welfare and the State Independent Living Council for fiscal year 2025. * **Department of Health and Welfare:** * Child Welfare: $106,875,600 from various Cooperative Welfare funds. * Services for the Developmentally Disabled: $41,530,700 from various Cooperative Welfare funds. * Service Integration: $6,562,400 from various Cooperative Welfare funds. * Division of Welfare: $177,466,600 from various Cooperative Welfare funds. * Division of Medicaid: $4,457,177,800 from various funds including Cooperative Welfare, Hospital Assessment, and Idaho Millennium Income Funds. * Public Health Services: $136,673,200 from various funds including Cooperative Welfare, Idaho Immunization Dedicated Vaccine Fund, Cancer Control Fund, Central Tumor Registry Fund, Rural Nursing Loan Repayment Fund, Idaho Millennium Income Fund, and ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Fund. * Licensing and Certification: $8,570,500 from various Cooperative Welfare funds. * Substance Abuse Treatment & Prevention: $24,876,300 from various funds including Prevention of Minors' Access to Tobacco Fund, Cooperative Welfare, Liquor Control Fund, Idaho Millennium Income Fund, and Cooperative Welfare (Federal) Fund. * Mental Health Services: $50,488,000 from various Cooperative Welfare funds. * Psychiatric Hospitalization: $58,875,400 from various funds including Cooperative Welfare, State Hospital North Endowment Income Fund, and Mental Hospital Endowment Income Fund. * Independent Councils (Developmental Disabilities Council and Domestic Violence Council): $15,097,200 from various funds including Cooperative Welfare and Domestic Violence Project Fund. * **State Independent Living Council:** $644,100 from the General Fund and State Independent Living Council (Dedicated) Fund. The bill also authorizes specific full-time equivalent positions for various programs within the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2025. It includes provisions regarding the transfer of funds between expense classes, program integrity, educational needs for children in custody, distribution of Child Abuse Protection Treatment Act funds, reporting requirements for Medicaid, and specific uses for certain funds like the Idaho Millennium Income Fund. Funds appropriated for trustee and benefit payments cannot be transferred to other expense classes. Personnel costs are also restricted from transfer. The Community Hospitalization Program is exempt from certain program transfer limitations.