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

This appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Divisions of Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention, Mental Health Services, and Psychiatric Hospitalization provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include nondiscretionary adjustments, funding from the opioid settlement for treatment, adjusting the budget for personnel costs and operating expenditures, replacement items, and endowment fund adjustments for state hospital north, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also provides adjustments to the FY 2024 appropriation for Mental Health Services and Psychiatric Hospitalization. Looking at Table 2 below, there are net-zero budget impacts moving personnel costs to operating expenditures, and moving funding for crisis centers from the Adult Mental Health Program to the Children's Mental Health Program, budget alignment by fund source for State Hospital South, and accreditation at State Hospital North and State Hospital West.