2021 Senate Bill 79 ↩

Senate Roll Call 183: Passed

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.