Budget/Appropriations

NACCHO's FY2013 Appropriations Priorities

These are NACCHO's top priority requests for FY2013 federal appropriations. A summary of NACCHO's appropriations priorities can be found here.

These three were chosen based on their treatment in the FY2013 President's budget request.

CDC Center for Public Health Preparedness and Response, State and Local Capacity, Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreements - $715 million in FY13 (same as FY2010)
CDC Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Community Transformation Grants - $226 million in FY2013 (same as FY2012, with continued eligibility for health departments)
CDC Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Food Safety - $44 million in FY2013 (+$17 million from FY2012)

Fact sheets on NACCHO's funding priorities can be found below:

Background Information

The president's budget provides the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $71.7 billion in discretionary funding, a cut of $6.6 billion from FY2012. The president's budget is a proposal to Congress and is nonbinding. However, it provides an indication of the administration's priorities and is a starting place for determination of final funding levels.

Public health programs received some increases and some cuts in the budget. Overall, CDC received a cut of 11 percent in discretionary budget authority, the largest cut in the Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, CDC received $903 million from the Prevention and Public Health Fund.

Detailed summary of FY2013 president's budget
Chart of Prevention and Public Health Fund allocation
Detailed chart of emergency preparedness funding at CDC
NACCHO testimony submitted to House Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Subcommittee
NACCHO testimony submitted to Senate Agriculture, FDA, Rural Development Appropriations Subcommittee

Details of NACCHO's priorities can be found below. NACCHO is submitting other requests in coalition with associations focused on other issues such as the 317 immunization program, HIV prevention and care, comprehensive sexuality education, Title X, maternal and child health and environmental health. If you are interested in these or other requests important to your jurisdiction, please contact Eli Briggs, NACCHO Director of Government Affairs.

	Pres Budget FY13
National Public Health Improvement Initiative*	$40 million	Same as FY2012
Public Health Emergency Preparedness	$642 million	- $1 million from FY2012 includes CDC capacity
Public Health Workforce*	$25 million	Same as FY2012
Epidemiology and Lab Capacity Grants*	$40 million	Same as FY2012
Consolidated Chronic Disease Prevention*	379	+$129 million from FY2012
Preventive Health Block Grant	0 million	-$80 million from FY2012
Community Transformation Grants*	$146 million	-$80 million from FY2012
Food Safety	$44 million	+$17 million from FY2012
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition	$1.0 billion	+117 million from FY2012

*Prevention and Public Health Fund