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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="18-4004" title_number="18" title_name="Student Financial Assistance" subtitle_number="40" subtitle_name="Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Fallen and Surviving Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commission shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Interest earnings; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any other money from any other source accepted by the Commission for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Fund may be used only to award scholarships under the Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall invest the money of the Fund in the same manner as other State money may be invested.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any interest earnings of the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>The Commission:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>May accept any gift or grant from any person for the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Shall deposit any gift or grant that it receives for the Program with the State Treasurer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>Funding for the Program shall be as provided in the State budget.</text>
  </level>
</section>
