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 Public Health Services Division provides enhancements to the FY 2025 maintenance budget that include a public health infrastructure grant; laboratory operating costs; laboratory information management modernization; a state loan repayment; a Maternal, Infant, and Early Child Home Visiting (MIECHV) program formula grant increase; data modernization; vital records modernization; Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) modernization; vital statistics modernization; funding for additional WIC staff; data processing modernization; immunization awards to public health districts and tribes; adult vaccine provider support; childhood lead poisoning prevention; Alzheimer's and dementia grants; rural physician loan repayment; disease investigation and control; data analytics personnel funding; HIV Care program receipt authority; Ryan White Part B supplemental grant funding; and the additional 2% CEC. In addition, this bill moves ongoing funding to onetime for multiple programs; removes funding for COVID grantfunding; andremovesfundingforsexeducationgrants. ThisbillalsoprovidesadjustmentstotheFY2024 appropriation for Physical Health Services and Laboratory Services. Looking at Table 2 below, adjustments include funding for the HIV Care Program drug rebates, a onetime transfer of personnel costs to operating expenditures, and a dedicated fund adjustment for the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho.