Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.

This is the FY 2023 original appropriation bill for the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Mental Health Services, Psychiatric Hospitalization, and Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention. It appropriates a total of $133,476,500 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 788.41. For benefit costs, the bill increases the appropriated amount for health insurance by $850 to $12,500 per eligible full time FTP, includes a one-year holiday of unemployment insurance, and adjusts workers compensation amounts. The bill also provides funding for permanent employees for the equivalent of a 3% salary structure shift and provides $1.25 per hour per eligible employee to be distributed based on merit for change in employee compensation. The bill funds five line items, which provide additional funds for community mental health activities based on the Idaho Behavioral Health Council recommendations; community behavioral health clinic startup grants; 988 crisis line funding; a net-zero fund shift based on increased federal funding due to accreditation for State Hospital North; and additional funding for substance abuse prevention. Also included in this bill are onetime FY 2022 supplemental appropriations, which provide funding for: children's psychiatric residential treatment grants; demolition of an existing and construction of a new materials warehouse at State Hospital South; demolition of an existing and construction of a new maintenance facility at State Hospital North. DISCLAIMER: This statement of purpose and