July 16, 2019
2019 Health & Human Services Budget – House & Senate
Author: Rose Hoban
By Rose Hoban
After 2018’s unusual budget process this year’s budget has unfolded in a more “traditional” way. The House unveiled it’s proposal to spend $5.569 billion on health and human services priorities in early May. The Senate finished it’s work on the budget in early June, asking for a total appropriation of $5.552 billion for the same part of the state’s HHS budget.
Some of the big differences in the two budgets include across the board cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services