This amendment reduces $289,169 the first year from the general fund to delay implementation of a pilot program using certified community health workers in four local health districts to improve health outcomes. House Bill 688 requires the Board of Health to adopt regulations setting forth requirements for community health workers to become certified, effective July 1, 2020. This delay will allow time for the regulations to be implemented so that certified community health workers can be hired for the pilot project beginning July 1, 2021. Language sets out the funding provided for the pilot program beginning in fiscal year 2022. Language also requires the agency to evaluate the pilot program and provide an interim report at the end of the biennium.