Appropriates an additional $400,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Healthcare Policy Initiatives Program for fiscal year 2017; transfers $5,000,000 from the Idaho Millennium Fund to the Idaho Millennium Income Fund; and appropriates an additional $5,000,000 from the Millennium Income Fund for the Health Care Initiatives Program for fiscal year 2017.

Thisisatrailerappropriationbillthatprovides$5,400,000totheDepartmentofHealthandWelfare for the Healthcare Policy Initiatives Program for FY 2017. This bill provides the funding needed to address the fiscal impact of H644. The Statement of Purpose for H644 states that "This proposal establishes a two year cooperative grant program through the Department of Health and Welfare to the Community Health Center Network of Idaho. The purpose of the grant program is 1) to collect demographic and health data on the Idaho gap population (persons under 100% of the federal poverty guidelines), and 2) to provideoutreachtoandaugmentationofprimaryhealthcareservicestothegappopulationprovided throughfederallyqualifiedhealthcentersthroughoutthestate. Thedataandaugmentedservicewill provide a bridge to recommendations expected to be made by a legislative interim committee, as proposed in HCR63, to be established to study and make recommendations regarding long term provision of health care to the gap population."