Legislative Description

Appropriates an additional $314,615,100 to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2011; reduces the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare by $35,859,000 for fiscal year 2011; appropriates and directs a transfer of $573,000 from the Idaho Millennium Fund to the Idaho Millennium Income Fund for fiscal year 2011; appropriates $2,235,689,500 to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2012; limits the number of full-time equivalent positions to 2,852.97; appropriates and transfers up to $42,317,700 from the Idaho Millennium Fund to the Cooperative Welfare Fund for fiscal year 2012; provides that the State Controller shall make periodic transfers from the General Fund to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; directs that funds appropriated for trustee and benefit payments shall not be transferred; directs the Department of Health and Welfare not to pay any education stipends; provides legislative intent for program integrity; directs the Department of Health and Welfare to provide monthly forecast reports for Medical Assistance Services; directs the Department of Health and Welfare to file quarterly reports on Medicaid Program Integrity staff collections; directs the Department of Health and Welfare to maintain Head Start appropriations at fiscal year 2007 levels; directs the Department of Health and Welfare to file quarterly reports on Self-Reliance Programs; directs that up to $140,000 shall be used for maintaining the GAIN standardized assessment statewide; directs that at least $50,000 shall be used for a statewide media campaign for underage drinking; authorizes the expenditure of all receipts collected for substance abuse treatment services; authorizes the expenditure of all receipts collected on behalf of the Coordinated, Enhanced, and Basic Medicaid Plans; provides for transfers in excess of ten percent among the Coordinated, Enhanced, and Basic Medicaid plans; directs the Department of Health and Welfare to report quarterly on the status of implementing the provisions of House Bill No. 260, as enacted by the First Regular Session of the Sixty-first Idaho Legislature; directs the periodic transfer of moneys from the Court Services Fund to the Cooperative Welfare Fund; directs the Department of Health and Welfare to make an interagency payment of $327,000 to the Department of Juvenile Corrections to be used for juvenile detention clinicians services; appropriates an additional $300,000 to the Department of Health and Welfare for Medical Assistance Services for fiscal year 2012 to be used for Medicaid managed care; and directs the Department of Health and Welfare to complete an actuarial analysis for Medicaid managed care and to submit a report no later than December 1, 2011.

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