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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-2207" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="22" subtitle_name="Child Abuse Medical Providers (Maryland Champ)">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Children’s Trust Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a Children’s Trust Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to provide funding for the Child Abuse Medical Providers (Maryland CHAMP) Initiative.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <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="f">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Fees distributed to the Fund from the issuance of commemorative birth certificates under § 4-217(a)(3) of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>The Treasurer shall invest and reinvest the money of the Fund in the same manner as other State money may be invested.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Comptroller shall pay out money from the Fund as directed by the Secretary.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>No part of the Fund may revert or be credited to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The General Fund of the State; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any other special fund of the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
</section>
