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 Indirect Support, Licensing and Certification, and Independent Councils provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include funding for MMIS operational data personnel, replacement items, and the additional 2% CEC. This bill also provides the FY 2025 Appropriation for the Indirect Support Services Division, which includes standard adjustments for benefit costs, statewide cost allocation, and change in employee compensation. This appropriation provides an additional $140,400 to the maintenance appropriation provided to the Divisions of Licensing and Certification and Independent Councils found in Senate Bill 1268, as well as $56,473,700 for the FY 2025 original appropriation for the Indirect Support Services Division, for a total increase of $56,614,100. Table 1 shows all the adjustments leading to the FY 2025 total budget for Other Programs. Additionally, Table 1 shows the mid-year adjustments to the FY 2024 budget for Indirect Support Services, and Licensing and Certification. Mid-year adjustments include a onetime transfer of personnel costs to operating expenditures for the Medicaid Program Integrity Unit and for inflationary items, onetime funding for the agency's federal cost allocation plan, and a onetime transfer of personnel costs to operating expenditures for contract nurses. The total increase to the FY 2024 budget is $296,400.