The Idaho Spending Index serves to provide a fiscally conservative perspective on state budgeting while providing an unbiased measurement of how Idaho lawmakers apply these values to their voting behavior on appropriations bills. Each bill is analyzed within the context of the metrics below. They receive one (+1) point for each metric that is satisfied by freedom-focused policymaking and lose one (-1) point for each instance in which the inverse is true. The sum of these points composes the score for the bill.
Analyst: Niklas Kleinworth
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Bill Description: Senate Bill 1459 transfers $470,000 and 3.00 full-time positions from the Department of Health and Welfare Division of Indirect Support Services to the new Office of Health and Social Services Ombudsman for fiscal year 2025.
Does this budget incur any wasteful spending among discretionary funds, including new line items? Conversely, does this budget contain any provisions that serve to reduce spending where possible (i.e. base reductions, debt reconciliation, etc.)?
This legislation transfers 3.00 full-time equivalent positions and $470,000 from the Department of Health and Welfare Division of Indirect Support Services to the newly established Office of Health and Social Services Ombudsman. This is a trailer appropriation for Senate Bill 1380. Senate Bill 1459 is consistent with the fiscal note provided for Senate Bill 1380.
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