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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="18-1102" title_number="18" title_name="Disease Prevention" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Academic Health Center Immunotherapy Research Fund">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is an Academic Health Center Immunotherapy Research Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to provide matching grants to statewide academic health centers for immunotherapy research.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Secretary shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <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="e">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>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="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund may be used only for immunotherapy research.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To qualify for a grant from the Fund, a statewide academic health center must dedicate funding from other sources to be used for the purpose described under subsection (b) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The amount of a grant awarded from the Fund may not exceed the amount of funding dedicated by the statewide academic health center under paragraph (2) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <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 General Fund of the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>Money expended from the Fund is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated to a statewide academic health center.</text>
  </level>
</section>
