Funding restored, contract reconsideredOver the 10-year lifespan of the program, state lawmakers appropriated nearly $3 million from Nebraska taxpayers. DHHS said it used federal funding to replace — not complement — state funding, such as through a targeted opioid drug disposal grant, a state opioid response drug disposal grant and a public health block grant. A DHHS spokesperson said a total of $100,000 in federal funding had been used over the program’s existence to offset state funding. With a daily program, Pertzborn and Tambly said, patients can come at any time a participating pharmacy is open. Rob Clements of Elmwood, chair of the Legislature’s budget-writing Appropriations Committee, said his understanding was that the state had replaced federal funding and that state funding was supposed to be temporary.