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Idaho responses to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
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States employ a variety of processes to apply for and administer federal grants. Ballotpedia's 2021 state survey of the federal grant review process examined the general processes applied by the 50 states in order to seek and distribute federal funds.
Research from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that federal funds made up 32% (roughly $639 billion) of all state revenue in 2017, making them the second-largest source of state revenue behind state tax collections.[1] States direct federal funds to government programs related to education, healthcare, transportation, infrastructure, and other policies.[1]
This page features Idaho's responses to Ballotpedia's 2021 survey.
Background
From August 5, 2021, to September 27, 2021, Ballotpedia staff contacted the executive and legislative budget offices of all 50 states via email and/or telephone to update a publicly available 2016 survey on state approaches to the federal grant review process.
Our staff contacted state officials with the following survey questions:
- Approval processes for federal grants
- What is your state’s process for federal grant applications and the approval process?
- What is your state’s approval process when the legislature is not in session?
- How does the legislature monitor the intent of federal grants? What legislative rules allow the state greater oversight of federal funds in the budgets?
- Contingency plans for the loss or decline of federal funds
- What is your state’s contingency plan in the case of a decline or loss of federal funds?
- Quality control processes for federal grants
- What is your state’s quality control process for tracking the effectiveness of federal funds?
- Does your state attempt to estimate the cost of federal fund requirements? If so, how?
- How does your state prioritize federal funds to best meet the needs of constituents?
- If your state doesn’t appropriate key federal funds like food stamps and unemployment benefits, are your state’s federal funds off-budget? How do you track this information?
Our staff also contacted state officials with the following two new survey questions regarding federal funds made available in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic:
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic funds
- Who has decision rights over American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations in your state?
- Who has decision rights over Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund allocations in your state?
Idaho 2021 survey responses
What is your state’s process for federal grant applications and the approval process?
“When applying for a new grant, an agency must submit a request for approval to the Division of Financial Management (DFM). DFM reviews what the grant will be funding, any matching funds requirements, and any long-term commitments the funding may require. If the grant is authorized under the Affordable Care Act, approval from the Governor’s Office is also required.”
What is the approval process when the legislature is not in session?
“The approval process is the same.”
How does the legislature monitor the intent of federal grants?
“The legislature appropriates spending authority for federal funds and receives a report from each agency on all federal funds received as part of the budget process.”
What is your state’s contingency plan for state financing in the case of losses or decline in federal funds?
“Each agency has a plan to specifically deal with losses in its federal funds.”
What is your state’s quality control process for tracking the effectiveness of federal funds?
“Each agency monitors the effectiveness of its programs and reports those findings to the Governor and legislative branch through performance measurement reporting, the budget process, and reports to the germane legislative committees. Most programs have federal reporting requirements and that data is shared with the Governor and the legislative branch.”
Does your state attempt to estimate the cost of federal fund requirements? If so, how?
“No.”
How does your state prioritize federal funds to best meet the needs of constituents?
“In the grant approval process, only funding directly relating to an agency’s core mission is allowed.”
If your state does not appropriate key federal funds like food stamps and unemployment benefits, are your state’s federal funds off budget? How do you track this information?
“Spending authority for these items are not budgeted but expenditures are tracked.”
Who has decision rights over American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations in your state?
"Ultimately, all spending authority decisions fall to the legislature through the appropriation process, with the exception of non-cognizable spending authority which is granted by the Governor. Our legislature put through a statute at the end of our most recent legislative session prohibiting the Governor from providing non-cognizable spending authority for any ARPA monies. The legislature inquired with agencies toward the end of last session, all needs for spending authority for the beginning of FY 2022. Those needs were conveyed to the legislature and anything that was deemed appropriate and necessary was added to agency budgets. This year, as with all years, agencies are submitting their needs through their budget requests which will be vetted through the Governor and his budget staff, then submitted to the Joint Finance Appropriation Committee (JFAC) as his recommendation. The Legislature will again make the final decisions on what gets appropriated."
Who has decision rights over Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund allocations in your state?
"ESSER funds have been handled in the same way all other appropriations are handled. The agency makes the request, the Governor vets and makes a recommendation, JFAC has a hearing and budget setting. Their recommendation goes to the full body which is then voted on and modified/killed/appropriated as recommended, then once passed is signed into law by the Governor."
Other state survey responses
Click on a state below to view its responses to the 2021 survey on the federal grant review process:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
See also
- State survey of the federal grant review process, 2021
- State responses to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
- State responses by question to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
- Federalism
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