2021 Senate Bill 79

Appropriations: 2021-22 Department of Health and Human Services budget

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 2, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Rick Outman (R-33)

To provide a template or "place holder" budget for a potential Department of Health and Human Services budget in the 2021-2022 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 11, 2021

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 13, 2021

Amendment offered

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Sylvia Santana (D-3)

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Sylvia Santana (D-3)

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-18)

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Erika Geiss (D-6)

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Adam Hollier (D-2)

To add spending and staff to a primary care initiative.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-29)

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Tom Barrett (R-24)

To prohibit the state health and welfare department from spending any money to develop, implement, or enforce any proposal or process to impose vaccine "passport" requirements. Another provision would ban imposing facemask mandates on any under age 18.

The amendment passed 20 to 15 (details)

Passed in the Senate 20 to 15 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Health and Human Services budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This covers welfare and Medicaid spending and is by far the state's largest annual appropriation. The bill would authorize $31.596 billion in gross spending, of which $21.191 billion is federal money, and $8.329 billion comes from state and local taxes and fees. The bill uses federal epidemic relief and stimulus dollars to increase spending in a number of areas and replace state dollars with federal money in others. It would also prohibit the state health and welfare department from spending any money to develop, implement, or enforce any proposal or process to impose vaccine "passport" requirements.

Received in the House

May 18, 2021

May 19, 2021

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 20, 2021

Passed in the House 108 to 0 (details)

To send back to the Senate a substitute version of the bill that is "stripped" of all actual appropriations, and instead authorizes just $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.

Received in the Senate

May 25, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

June 10, 2021

Received