Idaho Bills

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Behavioral Health Services Division for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Divisions of Mental Health Services, Psychiatric Hospitalization, and Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention (collectively known as Behavioral Health) provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that include appropriations for Idaho Behavioral Health Plan grant increases (line 14), population forecast adjustments, fund shifts at State Hospital West (Governor's Initiative), and fund adjustments for Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention (line 23). The FY 2025 mid-year adjustments as shown in Table 2 of the

Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to remove provisions previously related to the Department of Health and Welfare that are now assigned to other state agencies.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Public Health Services provides enhancementstotheFY2026maintenancebudgetandadjustmentstotheFY2025appropriation. ForFY2026, this bill includes funding for seven enhancements. Enhancements include the restoration of funding for several programs in the division that include Suicide Prevention, Drug Overdose Prevention, WIC Food Program, Alzheimer's and Dementia programs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and partial funding for the Hepatitis C and HIV Prevention programs; funding for the continuation of several ARPA programs; funding for the fourth year of communicable disease prevention grant funding; new funding for the Immunization Assessment Fund and changes $18.97 million of ongoing funding to onetime funding; additional appropriation for revenue generated in the Vital Records Bureau; new funding for the Home Visiting Program and changes $3.51 million of ongoing funding to onetime funding for the program; and funding for the Rural Nursing Loan Repayment Program for years 3-5 of the program. This bill includes eight sections of language providing guidance on federal funding limitations and directing the division to provide reports to the Legislature on federal grants including pass-through grants, drug overdose prevention programs, Alzheimer's and dementia programs, the Fit and Fall Proof Program, suicide prevention, and the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho. Finally, thisbillincludesfundingandatransferfortheRuralNursingLoanRepaymentProgramtoassistnurses working in rural areas for FY 2025. Thisbill doesnot include a requestfromthe agency to restorefundingforseveralprogramsincluding the Office of Accreditation, Refugee Health Screening, Populations with Diabetes, and for the Oral Health Workforce. Funding for the Governor's Initiative to provide medical education loan repayments under the Rural Physician Incentive Program (RPIP), which is for physicians providing care in federally desi

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2026.

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Indirect Support Services provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that include funding for a SQL server replacement, replacementitemsandOITSrecommendedhardwarereplacements. Thisbillalsoincludessectionsoflanguage directing the department to provide a report on state vehicle inventory, to provide a report on the administrative burdenoffederalgrants, languageprovidingguidanceonfederalfundinglimitations, andprovidingconditions, limitations, and restrictions. Additionally, this bill includes language related to the Division of Licensing and Certification. ThislanguagedirectsthedepartmenttoprovideareportontransitioningtheDivisionofLicensing andCertificationtotheDivisionofOccupationalandProfessionalLicenses(DOPL),aswellaslanguagerelated to transfer limitation exemptions for FY 2025 and FY 2026. This bill does not include enhancement 16, Cloud Server Capacity and Support. This bill also does not provide funding for the purchase of 60 replacement vehicles, as requested by the department. This appropriation represents a $1,105,600 reduction from the agency submitted budget request. Overall, the total FY 2026 budget for Indirect Support Services is 5.9% less than the FY 2025 Original Appropriation, representing a reduction of $3,311,200. This 5.9% reduction from FY 2025 was due to the amount of onetime appropriation in FY 2025 that was not repeated in the FY 2026 budget, as well as from the amount for requested replacement items that were not included in this bill.

YOUTH SAFETY AND PERMANENCY- Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Division of Youth Safety and Permanency provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget and adjustments to the FY 2025 appropriation. For FY 2026 this bill includes funding for five enhancements and population forecast adjustments. Enhancements include: prevention specialist staff to allow more children to be served safely in their homes by a family service workerpreventionspecialistsupportingboththechildandfamily; youthsafetyandpermanencystafftoprovide needs assessments to any child who has entered or is projected to enter a high level of care such as residential treatment or group homes; foster program clinical staff assigned to the congregate care unit to provide intensive support to foster families who have accepted placement of a youth with high emotional, behavioral, and mental healthneeds,aswellastoprovidea24/7supportlineforfosterparent; fosterprogramlicensingstafftofacilitate thelicensingprocessforbothfosterfamiliesandrelatedkin; andfundingforthecontinuedleasingandoperation ofthePayetteAssessmentandCareCenterforfosteryouth. ThetotalnumberofnewFTPbeingaddedtoYouth Safety and Permanency in this appropriation is 63.00. The bill also includes a FY 2025 supplemental appropriation for mid-year population forecast adjustments. This bill includes five sections of language providing guidance on federal funding limitations, directing the division to provide reports to the Legislature on the status of meeting the 1:1 ratio of foster families to foster children, as well as language that provides transfer limitation exemptions for Youth Safety and Permanency in FY 2025 and FY 2026, and the standard conditions, limitations, and restrictions language. Thisbilldoesnotincludeanappropriationforthepurchaseof, andfull-timestaffingfor, thePayetteAssessment and Care Center. This bill also does not include six additional licensing staff requested by the department.