H259 - 2023 Appropriations Act. (SL 2023-134)

Overview: Section 9H.4 of S.L. 2023-134 appropriates $11.25 million in nonrecurring funds for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, and $11.25 in nonrecurring funds for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, from the Youth Electronic Nicotine Dependence Abatement Fund to the Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, $750,000 must be used to support data monitoring to track tobacco/nicotine use and exposure among youth, young adults, and populations at risk and for independent evaluation of the State's evidence-based programs designed to help youth addicted through electronic cigarettes and other emerging products to quit.

This section directs DHHS to annually report an itemized list of expenditures, and an evaluation of the reach, effectiveness, and outcomes of funded activities, to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services and the Fiscal Research Division by November 1, 2023.

This section became effective July 1, 2023.