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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="24-1502" title_number="24" title_name="Miscellaneous Provisions" subtitle_number="15" subtitle_name="Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Grant Program Fund">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Grant Program Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to make grants to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Counties and municipalities to provide care coordination services to low–income pregnant and postpartum women and to children from birth to 3 years old; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Federally qualified health centers, hospitals, and providers of prenatal care to increase access to prenatal care, which may include behavioral and oral health services necessary for maintaining a healthy pregnancy.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Secretary shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Award grants from the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Oversee the operation of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Investment earnings of 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="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In fiscal years 2021 and 2022, the Governor shall include in the annual budget an appropriation of $100,000 for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Governor shall include in the annual budget bill appropriations in the following amounts for the Fund:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$1,100,000 for fiscal year 2023;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$2,100,000 for fiscal year 2024; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>$3,100,000 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Fund may be used only to provide grants to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Counties and municipalities to provide care coordination services to low–income pregnant and postpartum women and children from birth to 3 years old; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Federally qualified health centers, hospitals, and providers of prenatal care to provide and promote prenatal care to women who would otherwise not receive prenatal care.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <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, including interest earnings under subsection (e) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>Money expended from the Fund for grants under this subtitle is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for care coordination services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>The Fund is subject to audit by the Office of Legislative Audits as provided in § 2–1220 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
