2013 Senate Bill 198 ↩

Senate Roll Call 176: Passed

The Senate version of the Department Of Community Health budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013. This would appropriate $15.035 billion in gross spending, compared to $15.029 billion the previous year. Of this, $9.904 billion is federal money. Most of this budget consists of Medicaid health care subsidies. Notably, the budget does not include $1.5 billion from the federal health care law’s expansion of Medicaid. This is by far the largest departmental budget in state government, although the school aid budget spends substantially more state tax and fee revenue (vs. federal money).