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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-319" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="State Workers' Compensation Commission">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Workers’ Compensation Fund that consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>all revenue received through the imposition and collection of the assessment tax under § 9-316 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>income from investments that the Treasurer makes for the State Fund; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>any other fee, examination assessment, or revenue received by the Commission under this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, the Commission shall pay all fines and penalties collected by the Commission under this title into the General Fund of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The purpose of the Fund is to pay:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the costs and expenses incurred by the Commission that are related to the operation of the Commission, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>expenditures authorized under this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the cost of State employees specifically assigned to the Commission; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>reasonable expenses incurred by the Advisory Committee on the budget of the Commission established under § 9-317 of this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any other expense authorized in the State budget, including costs specified under § 9-315 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>All the costs and expenses of the Commission shall be included in the State budget.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any expenditures from the Fund to cover costs and expenses of the Commission 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="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>If, in any given fiscal year, the amount of the revenue collected by the Commission and deposited into the Fund exceeds the actual appropriation for the Commission, plus an additional 1 percent provision for unanticipated expenditures over the actual appropriation for the Commission, the excess amount shall be carried forward within the Fund for the purpose of reducing the assessment fee imposed by the Commission for the following fiscal year.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If, in any given year, the amount of revenue collected by the Commission and deposited into the Fund is insufficient to cover the expenditures of the Commission 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 assessment for the expenditures may be made.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Treasurer is the custodian of the Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The State Treasurer shall deposit payments received from the Commission into the Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <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>Unless otherwise provided by law, 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.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
