Funding Update - 12/14/09

Recently both the House and the Senate approved an omnibus FY 2010 spending bill that includes funding amounts for a number of federal programs including those in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ). On December 11th, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the omnibus FY 2010 spending package by a 221 to 202 vote. Yesterday, the Senate approved the spending bill by a 57 to 35 vote.

President Obama is expected to soon sign the measure into law. The full text of the spending bill can be found at: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app10.html.

Under the House- and Senate-approved FY 2010 omnibus spending bill, drug and alcohol prevention, treatment and research programming would receive the following funding amounts:

  • The Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant would receive $1.7986 billions, a $20 million increase over FY 2009.
  • The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) would receive $454.63 million, a $40.2 million increase over FY 2009. Specific CSAT programs would receive the following funds under the omnibus bill:
    • Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment would receive $29.1 million, funding level to FY 2009
    • Programs in the Criminal Justice portfolio would receive $67.6 million, representing an increase of nearly $30 million over FY 2009
    • The Access to Recovery program would receive $99 million, funding level to FY 2009
  • The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) would receive $202.2 million, a $1.2 million increase over FY 2009. Specific CSAP programming would receive the following funds under the omnibus bill:
    • Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants would receive $111.8 million, an increase of $1.8 million over FY 2009
    • STOP Act programs would receive $7 million, funding level to FY 2009
  • The Safe and Drug-Free Schools State Grants program would receive no funding in the omnibus spending bill.
  • The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) would receive $1.0598 billion, an increase of $27 million over FY 2009.
  • The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) would receive $462.35 million, an increase of $12 million over FY 2009 funding levels.

Programs authorized by the Second Chance Act would receive $100 million under the spending package, an increase of $75 million over FY 2009. Specific Second Chance Act programs would receive the following funding amounts under the House- and Senate-approved omnibus spending bill:

  • Adult and juvenile state and local reentry demonstration grants (Section 101) would receive $37 million, an increase of $22 million over FY 2009
  • Mentoring and transitional services (Section 211) grants would receive $15 million, an increase of $5 million over FY 2009
  • Family-based substance abuse treatment (Section 113) grants would receive $7.5 million
  • Reentry substance abuse and criminal justice collaboration (Section 201) grants would receive $13 million
  • Reentry courts (Section 111) would receive $10 million

Under the House- and Senate-approved FY 2010 omnibus spending bill, additional DOJ programming would receive the following funding amounts:

  • The Byrne Justice Grant (JAG) program would receive $511 million, funding nearly level to FY 2009
  • The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) program would receive $30 million, an increase of $20 million over FY 2009
  • The Drug Court program would receive $45 million, an increase of $5 million over FY 2009
  • The Mentally Ill Offender Treatment program would receive $12 million, an increase of $2 million over FY 2009
  • The Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) program would receive $25 million, funding level to FY 2009
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