Date: 01/24/2012

Final
Budget Recommendations for DPH&E

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Moved to approve the budget recommendations presenPASS



11:01 AM -- Budget Recommendations for DPH&E

Eliza Park, legislative liaison for the Department of Public Health and Environment (DPH&E) and Kim Fear, budget director for DPH&E, introduced themselves to the committee. Ms. Park and Ms. Fear explained the Funding Request for the 2012-13 Budget Cycle documents that were distributed to the committee (Attachments A- H). Ms. Parks and Ms. Fear responded to questions regarding the school-based health centers, including the criteria used to decide to reduce program funding in order to reduce the General Fund budget of DPH&E. Ms. Fear responded to questions about the R-2 Preventative Health Funding budget request and explained the availability of other funds for the programs contained in the budget request, such as the Ryan White AIDS Drug Assistance Program. Ms. Fear responded to questions about the R-1 Solid Waste Program Increase budget request.

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BILL:Budget Recommendations for DPH&E
TIME: 11:13:29 AM
MOVED:McCann
MOTION:Moved to approve the budget recommendations presented by the Department of Public Health and Environment and recommend to the JBC that if the March revenue projections are better than expected that the school-based health centers funding be restored. The motion passed on a vote of 11-0.
SECONDED:Massey
VOTE
Bradford
Yes
Brown
Yes
Fields
Yes
Joshi
Yes
Kefalas
Yes
Kerr J.
Yes
Massey
Yes
McCann
Yes
Peniston
Excused
Schafer S.
Excused
Young
Yes
Acree
Yes
Summers
Yes
YES: 11 NO: 0 EXC: 2 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS
11:17 AM

Representative Summers reviewed some of the information contained in the 2012 Legislative Session House Health and Environment Committee Sunset Reviews Memo (Attachment I) in anticipation of the sunset reviews the committee would be hearing later in the day.

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11:18 AM

The committee recessed.