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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-509" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Funds">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Anchor institution” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an institution of higher education in the State, including departments, foundations, and other entities of the institution; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a hospital institution in the State, including departments, foundations, and other entities of the institution, that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>has a group of at least five physicians who are organized as a medical staff for the institution;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>maintains facilities to provide, under the supervision of the medical staff, diagnostic and treatment services for two or more unrelated individuals; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>admits or retains the individuals for overnight care.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Blighted area” means an area in which a majority of buildings have declined in productivity by reason of obsolescence, depreciation, or other causes to an extent that they no longer justify fundamental repairs and adequate maintenance.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Fund” means the Seed Community Development Anchor Institution Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Sustainable community” means an area designated as a sustainable community under § 6–205 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a Seed Community Development Anchor Institution Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to provide grants and loans to anchor institutions for community development projects in sustainable communities and blighted areas of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Department shall administer the Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <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="f">
    <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>interest 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="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund may be used only to provide grants and loans to anchor institutions for community development projects in sustainable communities and blighted areas of the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To be eligible for a grant or loan, an anchor institution shall provide evidence of matching funds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Department shall award grants and loans from the Fund on a competitive basis.</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.</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">
    <level label="1">
      <text>For fiscal year 2019, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill or the capital budget bill an appropriation of $4,000,000 to the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For fiscal year 2020, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill or the capital budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>For fiscal year 2021, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill or the capital budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>For fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill or the capital budget bill an appropriation of $10,000,000 for the Fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
