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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="11-1603" title_number="11" title_name="Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning" subtitle_number="16" subtitle_name="Talent Innovation Program and Fund">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Talent Innovation Fund in the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to support the Program.</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 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>grants and donations to the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>interest earnings of the Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>any money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Department may use the Fund to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>provide grants:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to entities, including employers, institutions of higher education, tax exempt organizations, public agencies, local workforce development boards, and registered apprenticeship sponsors, and residents of the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>for costs including support services, subsidized wages, grantees’ administrative costs, and training;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>provide matching funds to secure donations or grants to the Fund;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>provide funding for the Program and other talent finance mechanisms approved by the Division and the Board; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>pay expenses for administrative, actuarial, legal, and technical services for the Program.</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 Fund.</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 for talent innovation fund programs is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for workforce development programs.</text>
  </level>
</section>
