House budget details: some higher fees, dramatic cuts to health care, Adult Day Health gone, millions less for mental health, etc.

The House plan includes no tax increases, although hunting and fishing licenses would cost more. Vehicle owners would also be asked to pay $5 more in annual licensing fees, with the voluntary payment supporting state parks.

Here are some of the details from the House budget proposal:

Education

-Teachers would get no cost-of-living increases for the next two years, saving $357 million.
-Teachers would lose two learning improvement days, saving $72 million. This is like a 1 percent salary cut for teachers.
-A $4-per-student allocation to buy library materials would be eliminated. Savings: $8 million.
-$768 million would be cut from the Student Achievement Program, although about a third of that would be replaced by federal dollars.

Higher education

-The state would provide $34 million more in financial aid.
-Tuition increases would raise a $231 million.

Social services

-Adult day health, which provides meals and daytime programs for the elderly and disabled, would be eliminated. The state would save $21 million.
-The state’s juvenile boot camp in Connell would be closed.

Mental health

-Regional Support Networs would lose $23 million, as well as millions more in increases they’d expected.

Health care

-Rates paid by the state to hospitals and doctors who see state patients would be reduced by millions of dollars.
-Health coverage for people judged unemployable would be reduced. So would coverage for people incapacitated by drug-or alcohol addiction.
-Care by in-home health aides would be reduced.
-Nursing homes would lose $101 million in state and federal dollars.
-An HIV early-prevention program would be cut slightly, saving $1 million.
-State spending on free cancer screenings for low-income senior citizens would be eliminated, saving $4 million.
-The state would stop providing most vaccines to doctors for free, saving $54 million.
-Local health districts would get less state money. Savings: $20 million.
-State funding for the poison control center would be cut in half, saving $2 million.
-The Basic Health Plan, which provides state-subsidized coverage for the working poor, would be cut by 43 percent, saving $252 million.

Other

-Seven of the state’s 88 fish hatcheries, including one in Colville, would be closed, saving $8 million.
-State pension contributions would be reduced by $430 million.