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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="24-1902" title_number="24" title_name="Miscellaneous Provisions" subtitle_number="19" subtitle_name="Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Nurses and Nursing Support Staff">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is a Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program Fund for Nurses and Nursing Support Staff.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Fund shall be invested and reinvested in the same manner as other State funds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Any investment earnings of the Fund shall be paid into the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Fund consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Revenue generated through a permanent funding structure recommended to the General Assembly by a stakeholder workgroup convened by the Department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any available federal funds;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Interest earnings; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Expenditures from the Fund shall be made by an appropriation in the annual State budget or by an approved budget amendment as provided under § 7–209 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The money in the Fund shall be used by the Office of the Comptroller to administer the Program.</text>
  </level>
</section>
