Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Commerce, Department of Environmental Quality, and the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2025.

This is a fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriation for the Department of Commerce, Department of Environmental Quality, and the Department of Health and Welfare. These actions make corrections to the fiscal year 2025 appropriations. Firstly, sections one and two align reappropriated moneys for broadband funding. This is a net zero change to the appropriation that moves moneys from the Commerce Program to the Broadband Office within the department. In 2024, the Legislature created a new budgeted program in the Department of Commerce to provide more transparency and oversight of funding spent on broadband projects. This appropriation aligns spending with oversight. Secondly, section 3 transfers $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the DEQ General Fund (within the Department of Environmental Quality). The 2024 Legislature appropriated and transferred $2,000,000 from the DEQ General Fund to the CAFO Improvement Fund to provide support for projects pursuant to Section 39-3628B, Idaho Code. The language in the 2024 appropriation bill directed funds be transferred from the DEQ General Fund, not from the General Fund as voted on by the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee. Finally, sections four through seven make two net-zero transfers from trustee and benefit payments to operating expenditures. These moneys are required to be expended as operating expenditures pursuant to audit guidance. The Department of Health and Welfare's appropriation was limited so as to now allow the department of move moneys from trustee and benefit funds to other expenditure categories. This action aligns the appropriation with the proper expenditure category.