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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="2-112.3" title_number="2" title_name="Maryland Insurance Administration" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Organization of Administration; General Powers and Duties of Commissioner">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Health Care Regulatory Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>There is a Health Care Regulatory Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to pay all costs and expenses incurred by the Administration related to the implementation of § 2-303.1 of this title and Title 15, Subtitles 10A, 10B, and 10C of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Fund shall consist of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>all revenue deposited into the Fund that is received through the imposition and collection of the health care regulatory assessment under § 2-112.2 of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>income from investments that the State Treasurer makes for the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Expenditures from the Fund to cover the costs and expenses for the implementation of § 2-303.1 of this title and Title 15, Subtitles 10A, 10B, and 10C of this article may only be made:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>with an appropriation from the Fund approved by the General Assembly in the annual State budget; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>by the budget amendment procedure provided for in § 7-209 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>If, in any given fiscal year, the amount of the health care regulatory assessment revenue collected by the Commissioner and deposited into the Fund exceeds the actual expenditures incurred by the Administration for the implementation of § 2-303.1 of this title and Title 15, Subtitles 10A, 10B, and 10C of this article, the excess amount shall be carried forward within the Fund for the purpose of reducing the assessment imposed by the Administration for the following fiscal year.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If, in any given fiscal year, the amount of the health care regulatory assessment revenue collected by the Commissioner and deposited into the Fund is insufficient to cover the actual expenditures incurred by the Administration to implement § 2-303.1 of this title and Title 15, Subtitles 10A, 10B, and 10C of this article because of an unforeseen emergency and expenditures are made in accordance with the budget amendment procedure provided for in § 7-209 of the State Finance and Procurement Article, an additional health care regulatory assessment may be made.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer is the custodian of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Fund shall be invested and reinvested in the same manner as State funds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall deposit payments received from the Commissioner into the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund and is not subject to § 7-302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article, and may not be deemed a part of the General Fund of the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>No part of the Fund may revert or be credited to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the General Fund of the State; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a special fund of the State, unless otherwise provided by law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
