Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Divisions of Child Welfare, Services for the Developmentally Disabled, and Service Integration provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include nondiscretionary adjustments, funding for the Idaho Children's Trust, Year 2 of the START Certification, infant and toddler service coordination, crisis patient treatment at SWITC, crisis stabilization funding, replacement items, personnel cost reductions, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also provides adjustments to the FY 2024 appropriation for Child Welfare, Services for the Developmentally Disabled, and Service Integration. Looking at Table 2 below, adjustments include cost based pricing increases, a net-zero shift for additional operating expenditures, crisis patient treatment at SWITC, crisis stabilization, and infant and toddler coordination.