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$300,000 IHBN funding approved by Senate Committee on Appropriations for FY 2007

Submitted by mlevis on Fri, 06/30/2006 - 12:04pm. Health Policy

The next step for this bill is passage by full Senate, then conference committee with House. Late July or early August or September vote on final bill to fund IHS for FY 2007. The House did not include the $300,000 in their bill so it will be up to Tribes to lobby to support this funding in conference committee.

INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
Appropriations, 2006 $2,692,099,000
Budget estimate, 2007 2,822,500,000
House allowance 2,830,136,000
Committee recommendation 2,835,544,000

The Committee recommends $2,835,544,000 for Indian health services, an increase of $143,445,000 over the current year enacted level, $13,044,000 over the budget request and $5,408,000 over the House allowance. Changes from the budget request include increases of $32,744,000 for the urban health program and $300,000 for the Indian Health Board of Nevada, and a decrease of $20,000,000 in fixed costs to provide $104,198,000 for Federal/tribal pay increases, medical inflation and population growth.