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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="15-128" title_number="15" title_name="Public Institutions of Higher Education" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to subsection (d) of this section, for fiscal year 2023, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill a general fund appropriation of at least:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>$16,790,700 for Bowie State University;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>$9,000,000 for Coppin State University;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>$24,003,200 for Morgan State University; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>$9,693,600 for University of Maryland Eastern Shore.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to subsection (d) of this section, for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2031, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill a general fund appropriation to the historically black colleges and universities as calculated under paragraph (2) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The funds provided under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be allocated to each institution in an amount that is the greater of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$9,000,000; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The product of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The percentage share of students enrolled during the immediately preceding academic year at each institution compared to the total number of students enrolled at all of the historically black colleges and universities; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>$57,700,000.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Subject to subsection (d) of this section, for fiscal year 2032, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill a general fund appropriation equal to the difference of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>$577,000,000; minus</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The sum of the total funds allocated for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2031 under this section.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The funds provided under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall be allocated to each historically black college and university in an amount that is equal to the product of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The percentage share of students enrolled during the immediately preceding academic year at each institution compared to the total number of students enrolled at all of the historically black colleges and universities; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>The amount of general funds determined for fiscal year 2032 under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>At the end of each fiscal year, any unused funds provided under this section shall be distributed to the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Reserve Fund established under § 15–127 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Funds provided under this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Shall be supplemental to, and may not supplant, funds appropriated to public institutions of higher education in the State budget;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May be used for the following purposes, as determined by the university receiving the funds:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Scholarships and financial aid support services;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Faculty recruitment and development;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Expanding and improving existing academic programs, including online programs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Development and implementation of new academic programs, including online programs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Academic support; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Marketing; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>May not be included in the calculations of State funding under §§ 16–305, 16–512, and 17–104 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If the special account in the Cigarette Restitution Fund established under § 7–317 of the State Finance and Procurement Article has a balance, the Governor shall use the balance to supplant the General Fund appropriation to the historically black colleges and universities required under this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>On or before December 1 each year, beginning in 2023 and going through 2033, each historically black college or university shall report to the Governor and, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, the House Appropriations Committee, and the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee on:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The uses of the funds in accordance with subsection (c)(2) of this section; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any new academic program developed with respect to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Development costs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Startup costs; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Ongoing costs to maintain the program.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
