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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-3003" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="30" subtitle_name="Cord Blood Transplant Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Cord Blood Transplant Center Support Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to promote economic development by supporting cord blood transplant centers at qualified medical institutions with a goal of being recognized as a regional center of excellence in the area of cord blood transplantation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Department shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <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="e">
    <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Beginning in 2013, any money appropriated in the State budget to the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Fund may be used only for the establishment of or support for a cord blood transplant center at a qualified medical institution.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State 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="2">
      <text>Any investment earnings of the Fund shall be paid into the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </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>
