Only hours after the governor signed the executive order, the legislature amended and passed SB 1050. It had been a simple agency continuation bill for ADHS. It quickly became a vehicle to transfer a whole bunch of money to the agency for the COVID-19 epidemic.
It appropriates $5M from the rainy day fund to the ADHS Public Health Emergencies Fund right now and up to an additional $50M more from that fund. The ADHS is supposed to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee what they want to use it for.
This money is over and above the generous roughly $12M that it will soon be receiving from the CDC for the response.
