SB 2512$GOV FY27 INTRO BUDGET

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This amendment to the FY27 Illinois budget (Public Act 104-0003) reallocates approximately $600 million within healthcare provider funds, reducing the Hospital Provider Fund from $7.9 billion to $7.3 billion and the County Provider Trust Fund from $4.125 billion to $3.525 billion, while adding a new $100 million Rural Healthcare Transformation Fund appropriation for federal Rural Health Transformation Program grants. The bill adds $36.6 million in new appropriations across multiple agencies, including $13.6 million re-appropriated from General Revenue to the Fund for Illinois' Future for violence prevention and youth employment grants, $10 million each to Department of Corrections (electronic health records) and Department of Human Services (DHS State Projects Fund and healthcare access grants to 16 named entities), $12.4 million for DNR's Urban and Community Forestry Program under the federal Inflation Reduction Act, and $7.5 million to the Criminal Justice Information Authority for an Acclivus grant. The bill adds approximately $53.9 million in legislative operations appropriations covering leadership staff, committees, research, supplies, and member travel. It reduces certain fund appropriations, including a 50% cut to the Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Fund grants ($5 million to $2.5 million) and repeals six prior sections from the original budget act.