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<subtitle article="ghg" title_number="13" subtitle_number="9" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_name="Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness">
  <section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-901" future_version_removed="true" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness">
    <level label="a">
      <level label="1">
        <text>There is an Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
        <level label="i">
          <text>Money collected under § 16–111.2(f) of the Transportation Article; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <text>Funds appropriated in accordance with subsection (c) of this section.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <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="4">
        <text>The State Treasurer shall separately hold and the State Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="5">
        <text>The Fund shall be invested and reinvested in the same manner as other State funds.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="6">
        <text>Any investment earnings shall be retained to the credit of the Fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <level label="1">
        <text>The Fund shall be managed and supervised by the Secretary or the Secretary’s designee.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <level label="i">
          <text>The Fund shall be used to promote public education and awareness about organ, tissue, and eye donations and to fund the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a donor registry as provided in § 4–516 of the Estates and Trusts Article.</text>
        </level>
        <level label="ii">
          <level label="1">
            <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2024, at least $500,000 shall be distributed annually from the Fund to the qualified nonprofit entity described in § 4–516 of the Estates and Trusts Article.</text>
          </level>
          <level label="2">
            <text>Any unused funds distributed to the qualified nonprofit entity under subsubparagraph 1 of this subparagraph shall revert to the Fund at the end of each fiscal year.</text>
          </level>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>The Fund shall be subject to audit by the Office of Legislative Audits under Title 2, Subtitle 12 of the State Government Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="c">
      <text>For each of fiscal years 2024 through 2027, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation to the Fund in an amount equal to the difference between:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>The funds collected under § 16–111.2(f) of the Transportation Article in the second immediately preceding fiscal year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>$500,000.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>