Identical to H 141, filed 2/20/19.

Appropriates $82,115 for 2019-20 from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety (DPS), Health Services Section, to fund one full-time Social Research Specialist III, or equivalent classification, responsible for combining and analyzing data on inmate health care in order to identify factors that increase inmate health care costs and ways in which DPS can limit those factors. Provides that the Social Research Specialist III reports directly to the Director of the Division of Health Services. Effective July 1, 2019.