<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-101" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>“Proposed budget” means:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the budget bill; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the budget books and other documents that support the budget bill.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>“Secretary” means the Secretary of Budget and Management.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-102" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>The General Assembly desires that, during preparation of a proposed budget, the Governor review, thoroughly and in detail, the recommendations of the Spending Affordability Committee.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>To have the complete financial program of the Governor early in a regular session, the General Assembly desires that the Governor:</text> <level label="1"> <text>submit with the proposed budget for a fiscal year:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the Governor’s complete financial program for that fiscal year; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>each bond or revenue bill proposed to carry out the program; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>use a supplemental budget amendment only to:</text> <level label="i"> <text>correct a mechanical error in the proposed budget; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>provide funding for legislation enacted during the session.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-103" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>The Secretary shall continually conduct studies on the needs of units of the Executive Branch of the State government and of private entities to which the State appropriates money.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>To obtain the information that the Secretary wants in estimating the needs of the unit or entity, the Secretary may:</text> <level label="i"> <text>question any officer or employee of the unit or entity; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>examine the records of the unit or entity.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Secretary shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>continually compare the needs of the units of the Executive Branch of the State government and of the private entities with the revenues that are collected;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>prepare estimates of revenues that will be available for the State budget;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>prepare any other estimates of revenues that the Governor requests;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>study the revenue structure of the State;</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>evaluate the sources of State revenues; and</text> </level> <level label="6"> <text>recommend to the Governor:</text> <level label="i"> <text>appropriate changes in the revenue structure of the State; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>new sources of State revenues.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>The studies of the units of the Executive Branch of the State government shall include:</text> <level label="i"> <text>program analyses; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>careful consideration of the administration, organization, functions, and duties of the units, to identify duplication or overlap.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>On the basis of the studies, the Secretary shall report to the Governor on changes that the Secretary believes would result in economy or efficiency or otherwise would be in the State’s best interest, including:</text> <level label="i"> <text>elimination or reduction of State programs;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>abolition of positions;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>changes in procedures; and</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>reorganization or consolidation of units.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The Secretary shall send a copy of each report under this subsection, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, to the Executive Director of the Department of Legislative Services.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-104" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>The Secretary shall prepare for the Governor a draft of the proposed budget.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The draft shall:</text> <level label="i"> <text>be comprehensive;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>eliminate duplication and conflict; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>include each item that the Governor is required by law to include in a proposed budget.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Secretary shall include in the draft items for capital improvements.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Secretary may specify:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the form to be used by a unit of the Executive Branch of the State government or a private entity to request an appropriation from the State;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>information that must be submitted with the form; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the time for submission of the form.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-105" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <text>Each proposed budget shall be classified as and in the form and with the detail that the Governor or law requires.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-106" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <text>The Governor shall submit to the General Assembly by the third Wednesday in January each year, except in the case of a newly elected Governor, and then not later than 10 days after the convening of the General Assembly, each bond or revenue bill necessary to submit a balanced budget and to carry out the proposed budget for the next fiscal year.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-107" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <text>The Secretary shall publish on the Department of Budget and Management’s website, in a machine–readable format, an itemized statement, linked to the proposed State budget, of revenues collected by the State that are dedicated by law to a special fund, including:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the name of each special fund;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a description of the purpose of the special fund;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the source of revenue for the special fund;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>the amount deposited into the special fund in the previous fiscal year; and</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>the balance of revenues in the special fund at the close of the previous fiscal year.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-108" future_version_removed="true" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>In accordance with the Maryland Constitution and other law, the Governor shall include in each budget bill:</text> <level label="1"> <text>an appropriation to pay the principal of and interest on the State debt;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>without revision, the appropriations requested for public schools, as certified by the State Superintendent of Schools;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>without revision, the appropriations requested for the Legislative Branch of the State government, as certified by the presiding officers of the General Assembly;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>without revision, the appropriations requested for the Judicial Branch of the State government, as certified by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland;</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>the appropriations requested by the Governor for the Executive Branch of the State government;</text> </level> <level label="6"> <text>the appropriations required by law to be included with the appropriations for the Executive Branch;</text> </level> <level label="7"> <text>appropriations for the salaries required by law to be paid by the State;</text> </level> <level label="8"> <text>without revision, appropriations for the Accountability and Implementation Board, as jointly certified by the presiding officers of the General Assembly and the Governor; and</text> </level> <level label="9"> <text>any other appropriations required by the Maryland Constitution or other law to be included in the budget bill.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Governor shall use the current salary plan of the Secretary of Budget and Management as the basis for the appropriations to pay those salaries to which the plan applies.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-109" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>Each budget bill shall contain a separate section that includes:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the proposed salary schedule for the executive pay plan established under Title 8, Subtitle 1 of the State Personnel and Pensions Article, which shall be in effect for that fiscal year; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a listing of the job classification and title of each position in the executive pay plan, including the proposed salary grade for each position.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>In addition to the separate section required under subsection (a) of this section, each budget bill shall contain a separate section that includes:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a listing, by the unit of State government, of the job classification of each position with flat rate or per diem compensation in excess of the minimum salary in the proposed executive pay plan. The listing shall include, but not be limited to, constitutional officers, positions for which salaries by law are determined by judicial salaries, and positions for which salaries are determined by an agency with independent salary setting authority that have not been included in the executive pay plan;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the number of positions in each of those job classifications; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the amount of the salary proposed for each of those job classifications.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>The salary schedule and proposed salary grade, as provided in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, shall be subject to approval by the General Assembly.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The proposed salary for job classifications, as provided in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, shall be subject to approval by the General Assembly.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-110" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Capital expenditure” means an expenditure made by the Department of Transportation for:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of a transportation facility, as defined in § 3-101(l) of the Transportation Article; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>capital equipment as defined by the Secretary of Transportation.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Modal administration” has the meaning stated in § 1-101 of the Transportation Article.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>“Operating expenditure” means an expenditure that is made by the Department of Transportation, including the Office of the Secretary or a modal administration, and that is not a capital expenditure.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>Each budget bill shall set forth as part of the appropriation for the Office of the Secretary of Transportation and for each modal administration, separate items for:</text> <level label="i"> <text>capital expenditures; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>operating expenditures.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The budget books shall set forth, for information, a summary of the capital expenditures and operating expenditures, as defined by the Secretary of Transportation, for the Maryland Transportation Authority.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The budget books for a fiscal year shall include the appropriation for the preceding fiscal year for each modal administration, as provided in the Consolidated Transportation Program.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>On submission of the budget bill to the General Assembly, the Department of Transportation shall report to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, the House Appropriations Committee, and the House Committee on Ways and Means, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, on the estimated costs for planning, engineering, right–of–way acquisition, and construction for all projects for which planning funds were added to the budget by the General Assembly during the previous three legislative sessions.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-110.1" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <text>If the U.S. General Services Administration applies to Prince George’s County or the State for a permit associated with the relocation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters to Prince George’s County, the Governor shall include in the annual operating or capital budget bill an appropriation of at least $200,000,000 for site redevelopment and to improve transportation infrastructure for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters relocation project.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-111" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>The Governor shall include in each budget bill a lump sum appropriation to the University College of the University of Maryland.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An appropriation under this section for a fiscal year shall equal the amount that University College estimates it will receive during the fiscal year from tuitions, fees, gifts, and grants and interest on those revenues.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>The supporting documents for each budget bill shall include the annual financial information statement that University College prepares.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The supporting documents need not include any other information about the appropriation under this section.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-112" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>Unless specifically authorized by law, the Governor may not submit a budget bill that changes a State statute.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Subject to the limitations in the Maryland Constitution, a statute that sets a salary is superseded by passage of a budget bill that alters the salary.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-113" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>The purposes of this section are to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>carry out the purposes of the laws relating to motor vehicle licensing and motor vehicle fuel taxes; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>prevent diversions of revenues that those laws generate.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>In a budget bill, the Governor may use the revenues that are generated by motor vehicle licensing and by motor vehicle fuel taxes, including fines and penalties, only to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>construct, reconstruct, and maintain bridges, highways, roads, and streets;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>pay the interest on and principal of bonds that have been issued to finance the construction of bridges, highways, roads, and streets; or</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>enforce those laws.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-114" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Cancer Program” means the Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program established under Title 13, Subtitle 11 of the Health – General Article.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Tobacco Program” means the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program established under Title 13, Subtitle 10 of the Health – General Article.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Each budget bill shall contain a separate section that includes the appropriation for:</text> <level label="1"> <text>each Component of the Tobacco Program;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>each Component of the Cancer Program;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the Tri–County Council for Southern Maryland, in accordance with § 13–611 of the Economic Development Article; and</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>any other program that is funded with money from the Cigarette Restitution Fund established under § 7–317 of this title.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-114.1" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <text>The costs of archaeological work incurred in a State project on a site of archaeological or historical significance shall be included in the budget bill of which the project is a part.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-114.2" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, when a proposed budget includes expenditure reductions to be applied across multiple Executive Branch agencies, the budget bill shall specify how the savings will be achieved and with the exception of position abolitions and items requiring collective bargaining shall include a separate schedule for each reduction allocating the reduction for each agency in a level of detail not less than the 3–digit R*Stars financial agency code and by each fund type.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>For fiscal year 2026 only, when a proposed budget includes expenditure reductions to be applied across multiple Executive Branch agencies, the budget bill may specify how the savings will be achieved and with the exception of position abolitions and items requiring collective bargaining may include a separate schedule for each reduction allocating the reduction for each agency in a level of detail not less than the 3–digit R*Stars financial agency code and by each fund type.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-114.3" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a proposed appropriation in the annual budget bill for a unit of State government that the General Assembly has struck or reduced may not be restored for the same purpose as originally proposed.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>A proposed appropriation that the General Assembly has struck or reduced may be restored for the same purpose as originally proposed if the General Assembly, in striking or reducing the appropriation, expressly authorized the restoration.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-115" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>On submission of the budget bill to the presiding officers of the General Assembly, the Governor shall provide the supporting material specified in this section.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Governor shall provide budget books that include the information required in this section.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The budget books for a fiscal year shall:</text> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>state each source of State revenues for the year, from which the proposed appropriations are to be paid; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>state the amount that the Governor estimates will be collected from each source;</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>contain a summary of the annuity bond accounts of the State as of the end of the last full fiscal year; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <level label="i"> <text>include a copy of the statewide cost allocation plan filed with the federal government for federal reimbursement of the costs of indirect State services that benefit federally funded programs; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>list, by unit of the State government, the amount of reimbursement received under the plan during the last full fiscal year.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The budget books shall contain personnel detail in a section that, by unit of the State government, sets forth, for each program or purpose of that unit:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the total number of officers and employees and the number in each job classification:</text> <level label="i"> <text>authorized in the State budget for the last full fiscal year and the current fiscal year; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>requested for the next fiscal year; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>an itemized statement of the expenditures for contractual services, supplies and materials, equipment, land and structures, fixed charges, and other operating expenses:</text> <level label="i"> <text>made in the last full fiscal year;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>authorized in the State budget for the current fiscal year; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>requested for the next fiscal year.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>The following information shall be provided on the website of the Department of Budget and Management simultaneously with the submission of the annual State budget:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the StateStat or managing for results agency strategic plan required under this article, limited to a description of the agency’s mission, goals, objectives, and performance measures; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>personnel detail, by unit of State government, that sets forth, for each program or purpose of the unit, the total amount for salaries of officers and employees and the amount for salaries of each job classification:</text> <level label="i"> <text>spent during the last full fiscal year;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>authorized in the State budget for the current fiscal year; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>requested for the next fiscal year.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <text>Whenever a proposed budget exceeds the recommendations of the Spending Affordability Committee, the budget books shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>indicate the degree to which the proposed budget and recommendations differ; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>set forth the Governor’s reasons for exceeding the recommendations.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>The budget books shall include supporting data and the results of the calculations required under § 5–202(l) of the Education Article.</text> </level> <level label="h"> <text>The information required under this section shall be provided on the website of the Department of Budget and Management simultaneously with the submission of the annual State budget.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-116" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “machine–readable format” means a comma–separated values file format.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>On submission of the budget bill to the presiding officers of the General Assembly, the Governor shall provide the following number of copies of the budget books required under § 7–115 of this subtitle:</text> <level label="1"> <text>one copy to each member of the General Assembly; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>80 copies to the Department of Legislative Services.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The information required under § 7–115 of this subtitle shall be provided in a machine–readable format on the website of the Department of Budget and Management simultaneously with the publication of the proposed annual State budget.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The Department of Budget and Management shall archive the information provided in a machine–readable format on the website of the Department of Budget and Management beginning with the fiscal year 2017 budget.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-117" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>Subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the Secretary shall provide to the General Assembly on a biennial basis by no later than February 1 of the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year the report covers, a report that contains a statement of the estimated amount by which exemptions from taxation reduce, for the year:</text> <level label="1"> <text>State revenues; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>revenues that the State collects for local governments.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>For each exemption, the statement shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>show the estimated amount by which the exemption reduces revenues;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>identify the person or the part of the population that benefits from the exemption; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>say whether the exemption conflicts with any other State program.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The statement shall include:</text> <level label="1"> <text>each subtraction modification under § 10–207, § 10–208, or § 10–209 of the Tax – General Article; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>each exemption under:</text> <level label="i"> <text>Title 8, Subtitle 7 of the Natural Resources Article;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>§ 5–104, § 6–103, § 7–203, § 7–303, § 9–203, § 9–303, § 9–304, § 10–104, § 10–211, § 10–212, § 12–104, or Title 11, Subtitle 2 of the Tax – General Article;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>Title 7 of the Tax – Property Article; and</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>§ 13–810 or § 13–903 of the Transportation Article.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The Comptroller, the Department of Assessments and Taxation, the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Transportation, and other units of the State government shall help the Secretary of Budget and Management to prepare a draft of the statement under this section.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-118" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <text>In its annual submission of the proposed budget, the Department of Budget and Management shall provide, for informational purposes, a budget presentation that includes a description of the proposed expenditures under the Maryland Emergency Medical System Operations Fund for the:</text> <level label="1"> <text>Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>Aviation Division of the Special Operations Bureau, Department of State Police; and</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>grants under the Senator William H. Amoss Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>In this subsection the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>“Cancer Program” means the Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program established under Title 13, Subtitle 11 of the Health – General Article.</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>“Tobacco Program” means the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program established under Title 13, Subtitle 10 of the Health – General Article.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The budget books shall contain a budget presentation that provides an overview of the proposed expenditures for:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the Tobacco Program, including the proposed expenditures for:</text> <level label="1"> <text>each Component of the Tobacco Program;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>each program funded under each Component of the Tobacco Program; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>each Local Public Health Tobacco Grant;</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the Cancer Program, including the proposed expenditures for:</text> <level label="1"> <text>each Component of the Cancer Program;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>each program funded under each Component of the Cancer Program;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>each Local Public Health Cancer Grant;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>each statewide Academic Health Center Public Health Grant;</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>each statewide Academic Health Center Cancer Research Grant;</text> </level> <level label="6"> <text>each statewide Academic Health Center Tobacco–Related Diseases Research Grant; and</text> </level> <level label="7"> <text>each statewide Academic Health Center Network Grant;</text> </level> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the Tri–County Council for Southern Maryland, in accordance with § 13–611 of the Economic Development Article, including proposed expenditures for the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission; and</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>any other program that is funded with the Cigarette Restitution Fund established under § 7–317 of this title.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-119" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>For each fiscal year, General Fund capital appropriations shall be budgeted in the operating budget in separate eight–digit programs.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>When multiple projects or programs are budgeted within the same nontransportation eight–digit program, each distinct program and project shall be budgeted in a distinct subprogram.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>To the extent possible, subprograms for projects spanning multiple years shall be retained to preserve funding history.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The budget detail for prior and current fiscal years submitted with each proposed budget shall be organized in the same fashion to allow comparison between fiscal years.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-120" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="State Operating Budget"> <text>On submission of a supplemental budget bill to the presiding officers of the General Assembly that includes an appropriation in accordance with § 5–202(l) of the Education Article, the Governor shall provide supporting data and the results of the calculations required under that subsection. </text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-201" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>“Appropriation act” means:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the State budget; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a supplementary appropriation act.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>“Program” means a brief statement in an appropriation act of the purpose for which an appropriation shall be used.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <text>“Warrant” means a warrant that the Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller issues for the disbursement of money from the State Treasury.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-202" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>Money may be disbursed from the State Treasury only on appropriation by an appropriation act.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-205" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>Money may be disbursed from the State Treasury only in accordance with the current appropriation for a program as amended from time to time in accordance with this title.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-206" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>The initial appropriation for a program is set forth in the appropriation act. However, the appropriation for a program may be increased or reduced as provided in this subtitle.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-207" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>“Lump sum appropriation” means an appropriation for which the budget books or other documents that support the appropriation act contain no detailed information.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Within 90 days after the General Assembly adjourns, each officer or unit of the State government to which a lump sum appropriation is made shall submit to the Board of Public Works a schedule that shows, in the form and with the detail set by the Board, the proposed apportionment and proposed disbursement of the appropriation.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-208" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>While the General Assembly is in session the General Assembly may amend the appropriation for a program of the Legislative Branch of the State government by amendment to the budget bill.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>While the General Assembly is not in session, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates jointly may authorize an amendment of an appropriation for a program of the Legislative Branch of the State government.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>An amendment of an appropriation for a program of the Legislative Branch of the State government:</text> <level label="1"> <text>may not increase the sum of the appropriations from the General Fund of the State for all the programs of the Legislative Branch; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>may authorize the expenditure of money from a special fund or the federal government as provided in § 2-201 of this article or § 7-217(a) of this subtitle.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>Except as provided in this subsection, an amendment under this section may not increase a salary for a nonclassified position so that the salary exceeds the amount set by the most recently enacted State budget.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>The limitation applies whether or not the most recently enacted budget is in effect.</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>This subsection does not apply to salaries of positions that are included in an executive pay plan for the Legislative Branch.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>While the General Assembly is not in session, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates jointly may approve an amendment that increases a salary so that it exceeds the limitation in this subsection if:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the President and the Speaker find that the salary increase is needed because an inability to obtain or to keep an essential career employee who is performing an administrative function or an essential professional or technical employee has created an acute emergency; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>their findings are documented.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>A copy of each amended appropriation for a program shall be provided promptly to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the Comptroller; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the Secretary of Budget and Management.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-208.1" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland may authorize an amendment of an appropriation for a program of the Judicial Branch.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An amendment of an appropriation for a program of the Judicial Branch:</text> <level label="1"> <text>may not increase the sum of the appropriations from the General Fund of the State for all the programs of the Judicial Branch; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>may authorize the expenditure of money from a special fund or the federal government as provided in § 2–201 of this article and § 7–217(a) of this subtitle.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, an amendment under this section may not increase a salary for a nonclassified position so that the salary exceeds the amount set forth by the most recently enacted State budget bill. The limitation in this paragraph applies whether or not the most recently enacted budget is in effect.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland may approve an amendment that increases a salary so that it exceeds the limitation of this subsection if the Chief Justice finds that the salary increase is needed because an inability to obtain or to keep an essential career employee who is performing an administrative function or an essential professional or technical employee has created an acute emergency, and the finding is documented. This paragraph does not apply to salaries of positions that are included in an executive pay plan for the Judicial Branch. Adjustments to those salaries beyond the amount included in the most recently enacted State budget shall be submitted to the Legislative Policy Committee for approval.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>A copy of each amended appropriation for a program shall be provided promptly to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the Comptroller; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the Secretary of Budget and Management.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-209" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>The Governor may amend an appropriation for a program of the Office of the Governor.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in § 7–212 of this subtitle, whenever an officer or unit of the Executive Branch of the State government wants the appropriation for a program of the officer or unit amended, the officer or unit shall submit a proposed amended appropriation for the program to the Secretary of Budget and Management.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The Secretary of Budget and Management shall endorse on or attach to the proposed amended appropriation for the program a recommendation and send the amended appropriation for the program and recommendation to the Governor.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>At any time before the Governor approves or disapproves the proposed amended appropriation for a program, the officer or unit may withdraw the proposal.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>Whenever the Governor approves a proposed amended appropriation for a program, the Governor shall endorse it as “approved”.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>An amendment of an appropriation for a program:</text> <level label="i"> <text>except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, may not increase the sum of the appropriations from the General Fund of the State for all the programs of the officer or unit; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>may permit the expenditure of money from a special fund or the federal government as provided in § 2–201 of this article or § 7–217(a) of this subtitle.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>An amendment of an appropriation for a program of the Executive Branch may increase the sum of the appropriations from the General Fund of the State for all programs of the officer or unit if money from the Contingent Fund of the Board of Public Works is transferred to the program.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, an amendment under this section may not increase a salary so that it exceeds the amount set by the most recently enacted State budget.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>The limitation in this paragraph applies whether or not the most recently enacted budget is in effect.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <level label="i"> <text>If the Board of Public Works approves the increase, the Governor may approve an amendment that increases the salary for a position listed in the budget bill in accordance with § 7–109 of this title.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>An amendment under this paragraph remains effective until the State budget for the next fiscal year becomes effective.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, an amendment under this section may not transfer any part of an appropriation among any of the principal departments or any of the units in the Executive Branch that are not assigned to a principal department.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>This subsection does not prevent a transfer that:</text> <level label="i"> <text>is part of a reorganization under § 8–301 of the State Government Article;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>is needed to comply with federal law or a policy directive of a federal unit that relates to the use of federal funds;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>because of an emergency declared by the Governor, is needed to protect the health, welfare, or property of the public; or</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>is specifically authorized by the budget bill or other law.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <level label="i"> <text>Subject to the State budget bill, an amendment may transfer part of an appropriation of special or federal funds between any of the principal departments or any of the units in the Executive Branch that are not assigned to a principal department if:</text> <level label="1"> <text>funds are available to the department or unit from which the funds are to be transferred through a federal grant or contract or other restricted grant or contract;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the use of funds by the department or unit to which the funds are to be transferred is directly related to the purposes of the grant or contract and the statutory duties of that department or unit; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the transferring department or unit and the receiving department or unit submit a schedule of funds to be transferred to the Department of Budget and Management.</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>Funds transferred under this paragraph may not be expended by the recipient department or unit until each proposed budget amendment has been approved by:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the Secretary of Budget and Management;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the Governor; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the Board of Public Works.</text> </level> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>A copy of each approved budget amendment under this paragraph shall be provided to the Department of Legislative Services.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <text>The Governor shall send a copy of each amended appropriation for a program to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the Comptroller; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the Department of Legislative Services.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>An amended appropriation for a program is effective when the Governor sends notice of the amended appropriation to the Comptroller.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-210" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>A budget amendment may not change any language or substantive provision in the State budget.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The limitation in this subsection does not apply to the monetary figures of an appropriation.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>A budget amendment may not transfer any part of a General Fund capital appropriation to an operating program or purpose.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-211" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>On or before the 3rd Wednesday in January of each year, the Secretary of Transportation shall submit to the General Assembly, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, a report on amendments of appropriations for programs of the Department of Transportation.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>A report under this section shall describe each proposed amended appropriation for a program that the Department has submitted or expects to submit during the current fiscal year under § 7-209 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The description shall include:</text> <level label="i"> <text>an explanation of the purpose of the amendment; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>an analysis of the impact of the amendment on appropriations of special and federal funds.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-212" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>This section applies only to the following governing boards:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the Board of Regents of Morgan State University;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the Board of Trustees of St. Mary’s College of Maryland.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>A governing board to which this section applies may transfer money among objects and, subject to the limitation in subsection (c) of this section, among programs under the jurisdiction of the governing board without submitting a proposed amended appropriation for a program under § 7-209 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>During a fiscal year, a governing board may not transfer from a program more than 5% of the appropriation in the State budget for that program.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <text>At the end of each fiscal year, each governing board to which this section applies shall give to the Comptroller, the Department of Budget and Management, and, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, the Department of Legislative Services, for information only, a summary of the transfers among programs made during the fiscal year.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <text>Section 7-209 of this subtitle does not apply to a transfer under this section.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-213" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection and except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, with the approval of the Board of Public Works, the Governor may reduce, by not more than 25% of the legislative appropriation as approved by the General Assembly for any eight–digit program in the State operating budget in any fiscal year, any appropriation:</text> <level label="i"> <text>that the Governor considers unnecessary; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>that is subject to budgetary reductions required under the budget bill as approved by the General Assembly.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>At least 7 calendar days before the Board of Public Works may approve a proposed reduction of an appropriation under this subsection, the Secretary of Budget and Management shall:</text> <level label="i"> <text>publish on the Department of Budget and Management’s Web site, in a machine–readable format, notice of the proposed reduction, including:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the name of the State agency or program for which the appropriation is intended and a brief narrative summary of the impact of the proposed reduction on the State agency or program;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the amount of the proposed reduction in both dollar and percentage values;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the fund source of the appropriation subject to the proposed reduction; and</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>any projected reductions in workforce as a result of the proposed reduction;</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>provide the notice required under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph to the Board of Public Works for publication, in a machine–readable format, on the Board’s Web site; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>provide written notice of the proposed reduction, including the items specified under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the Legislative Policy Committee;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the House Appropriations Committee.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>The Governor may not reduce an appropriation to the Legislative Branch or the Judicial Branch of the State government.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The Governor may not reduce an appropriation for:</text> <level label="i"> <text>payment of the principal of or interest on the State debt;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>public schools, including the Maryland School for the Deaf;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the Maryland School for the Blind; or</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>the salary of a public officer, during the term of office.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>Except as provided in § 8–109 of the State Personnel and Pensions Article, the Governor may not reduce an appropriation for the salary of any nontemporary employee in the State Personnel Management System.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-216" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>Subject to the limitations in this subtitle, an officer or unit of the State government may spend an appropriation for a program of the officer or unit in accordance with the current appropriation.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, whenever an officer or a unit of the State government spends any part of an appropriation, the officer or unit promptly shall send the bill to the Comptroller for payment.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Subject to the limitations in this subtitle, the Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller may issue a warrant for payment of the bill.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>The Comptroller shall exempt an officer or unit of the State government from the requirements of subsection (b) of this section if the Comptroller determines that the exemption would be in the public interest.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Subject to the limitations in this subtitle, the Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller may issue warrants from time to time to provide the officer or unit with the working cash that the Comptroller finds necessary.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The Comptroller shall keep a record that shows each exemption, each amount advanced to an officer or unit, and the reasons for each exemption.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>The record shall be kept in the Office of the Comptroller and shall be open to public inspection.</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>An officer or unit shall send to the Comptroller the voucher or a copy of the voucher for each expenditure made from an advance under this subsection.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-217" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>An officer or unit of the State government may spend money from a special fund or the federal government that is not estimated or included in the State budget or exceeds the estimate in the State budget and is paid into the State Treasury for a program after an approved amendment of a special or federal fund appropriation for the program:</text> <level label="1"> <text>for the specific purpose to which the money is dedicated by State law or act of Congress; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>if the money is not dedicated to a specific purpose, with the approval of the Governor and as authorized in an approved budget amendment, for necessary current operations.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Money that is derived from a source estimated and included in an appropriation act and that is in excess of the estimate shall remain in the General Fund of the State until appropriated by a subsequent appropriation act.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-218" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>Before issuance of a warrant for payment of a bill, the Comptroller may have the bill audited.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-219" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>The Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller may not sign a blank warrant.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>A warrant for payment of a bill is not valid unless the following information appears on the face of the warrant:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the amount of the warrant;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the date of issue;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>a reference to the document that identifies:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the payee; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the officer or unit of the State government that submitted the bill; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="4"> <text>the certification of the Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller that:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the amount of the warrant is correct; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the officer or unit submitted the bill for which the warrant is issued.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>A warrant for an advance of money to an officer or unit of the State government is not valid unless the following information appears on the face of the warrant:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the amount of the warrant;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the date of issue;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the identity of the officer or unit; and</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>the certification of the Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller that the amount of the warrant is correct.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-220" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>A warrant shall charge an applicable appropriation to the officer or unit that:</text> <level label="1"> <text>has submitted a bill for payment; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>is to receive an advance.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-221" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>The Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller may not issue a warrant for disbursement of an appropriation to an institution or corporation unless the Comptroller has on file an affidavit that complies with the requirements of this section.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An affidavit under this section shall state that the affiant personally knows that no money from State funds has been paid or promised to any legislative agent, lawyer, or lobbyist for any service to obtain the appropriation.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>An affidavit under this section shall be signed by:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the president and the treasurer of the institution or corporation; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>if there is no president or treasurer, another officer or individual who has charge of and disburses the money of the institution or corporation.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-222" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>Unless a person and the Comptroller or any duly authorized agent or representative designated by the Comptroller have entered into an agreement for the payment of the person’s indebtedness to the State and the payments are current or unless, for good cause shown, the Board of Public Works grants a waiver, the Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller may not issue to a person a warrant for payment of a claim due to the person in the person’s own right, if the person owes $50 or more to the State, a unit of the State government, or any governmental entity under the control of the State.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-223" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>The Comptroller may not allow a warrant to be issued until a record is made in the books of the Office of the Comptroller.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The record shall:</text> <level label="i"> <text>state the amount of the warrant;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>state the account against which the warrant is charged; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>identify:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the payee and the officer or unit of the State government that submitted the bill; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>for an advance, the officer or unit.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Comptroller shall keep an abstract of each warrant.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-226" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>Subject to the limitations in this Part IV of this subtitle and any other law, the Treasurer, the Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a deputy treasurer may disburse money from the State Treasury in accordance with a warrant.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-227" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>A check that is drawn to disburse money from the State Treasury shall be:</text> <level label="1"> <text>signed by the Treasurer, the Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a deputy treasurer; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>countersigned by the Comptroller, the Chief Deputy Comptroller, or a deputy comptroller.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-227.1" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>In addition to disbursement of money by check authorized under § 7–227 of this subtitle, the Treasurer, upon warrant of the Comptroller, may disburse money by those means generally recognized and accepted by the banking industry for transferring funds. Such disbursements shall be made in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Treasurer, after concurrence by the Comptroller, in accordance with Title 10, Subtitle 1 of the State Government Article.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-228" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>The Treasurer, the Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a deputy treasurer shall keep a receipt for money disbursed from the State Treasury.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-229" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Undeliverable Checks Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>There is an Undeliverable Checks Fund.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>If a check that the Treasurer, the Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a deputy treasurer issues is returned to the Comptroller as undeliverable, the Comptroller:</text> <level label="1"> <text>shall keep the check for a period of not more than 30 days;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>during that period, shall try diligently to find the correct address of the payee and to deliver the check; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>if unable to deliver the check during that period, shall send the check to the Treasurer.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>Whenever the Comptroller returns a check as undeliverable, the Treasurer shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>cancel the check; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>request the Comptroller to credit the amount of the canceled check to the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>On a warrant charged against the Fund, the Treasurer, the Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a deputy treasurer may issue a check to replace a check canceled under this section.</text> </level> <level label="f"> <text>As required by State or federal law, or as considered proper by the Treasurer, the Treasurer, the Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a deputy treasurer shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>on a warrant charged against the Fund, disburse to the original source any money in the Fund required to be returned to the source; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>request the Comptroller to transfer any money in the Fund to another fund or account.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>At the end of each fiscal year, the Treasurer:</text> <level label="1"> <text>shall identify the checks that have been credited to the Fund and remain unclaimed for 2 years;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>determine a reasonable balance to retain in the Fund that will be needed to honor each replacement check that may be issued on a warrant charged against the Fund; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>request the Comptroller to transfer the balance in the Fund, after subtraction of the amount determined as provided in item (2) of this subsection, to the General Fund of the State.</text> </level> </level> <level label="h"> <text>Undeliverable checks credited to the Fund are not subject to Title 17 of the Commercial Law Article.</text> </level> <level label="i"> <text>Notwithstanding Title 4, Subtitle 3, Part III of the General Provisions Article, at the end of each fiscal year, the Treasurer may electronically publish on the Treasurer’s website the names of payees of checks that have remained unclaimed for 2 years or more.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-230" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Unpresented Checks Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>There is an Unpresented Checks Fund.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>At the end of each fiscal year, the Treasurer shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>identify each check that:</text> <level label="i"> <text>has been issued against the money of the State; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>has remained unpresented for 2 years; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>request the Comptroller to credit the aggregate amount of the checks to the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>At the end of each fiscal year, the Treasurer shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>determine a reasonable minimum balance to retain in the Fund that will be needed to honor each check that is presented after its amount has been credited to the Fund; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>request the Comptroller to transfer the balance in the Fund to the General Fund of the State.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>After the amount of a check has been credited to the Fund, on a warrant charged against the Fund, the Treasurer, the Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a deputy treasurer may reissue a check that is presented for payment.</text> </level> <level label="f"> <text>As required by State or federal law, or as considered proper by the Treasurer, the Treasurer, the Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a deputy treasurer shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>void an unpresented check; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>request the Comptroller to transfer the amount of the voided check to:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the original source of the money; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>another fund or account.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>Unpresented checks credited to the Fund are not subject to Title 17 of the Commercial Law Article.</text> </level> <level label="h"> <text>Notwithstanding Title 4, Subtitle 3, Part III of the General Provisions Article, at the end of each fiscal year, the Treasurer may electronically publish on the Treasurer’s Web site the names of payees of checks that have remained unpresented for 2 years or more.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-233" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>An officer or unit of the State government may not spend any part of a lump sum appropriation to the officer or unit until the Board of Public Works approves the schedule for apportionment and disbursement of the appropriation, as provided in § 7-207 of this subtitle.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-234" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>An officer or unit of the State government may not spend money:</text> <level label="1"> <text>in excess of the total appropriation to the officer or unit; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>in excess of the amounts set forth in the current schedule for apportionment and disbursement of the appropriation.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>The State may not reimburse any expenditure to the extent that the expenditure violates subsection (a) of this section.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The State is not obligated to appropriate money to pay an expenditure that violates subsection (a) of this section.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>Each employee or member of a unit and each officer of the State government who makes an expenditure that violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of neglect of official duty and is subject to removal.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-235" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, this section applies to:</text> <level label="i"> <text>each unit of the State government; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>each unit that:</text> <level label="1"> <text>is created by general law; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>operates in 2 or more counties.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>This section does not apply to a bicounty commission that county governing bodies appoint if those bodies also review the budget of the commission.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>A unit may not adopt a rule or regulation or take any other administrative action that would result in expenditures in excess of the limitations in the State budget unless:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the General Assembly expressly approves the administrative action;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>if the General Assembly is not in session, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates:</text> <level label="i"> <text>consult with the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>after receiving the written advice of the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee, jointly give written approval for the administrative action; or</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the Governor declares, by proclamation, that the administrative action is necessary and a matter of emergency.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-236" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>A unit of the Executive Branch of the State government may not create a permanent staff position that is in addition to the positions for which the State budget and its supporting documents specifically provide unless:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the Board of Public Works gives its approval; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>money for the position is available:</text> <level label="i"> <text>from the General Emergency Fund; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>by budget amendment, from other special or federal funds.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>On the 1st day of each regular session of the General Assembly, the Secretary of Budget and Management shall submit, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, to the appropriate committees of the General Assembly a report that:</text> <level label="1"> <text>states the total number of additional staff positions for which the Board of Public Works has given approval since the last regular session; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>for each position, states:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the type;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the salary or wages; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the reasons for the approval.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The approval of a new position under this section is temporary. However, unless the General Assembly deletes the position from the budget bill, the position continues with the compensation provided in the State budget.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-237" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <text>This section applies to any officer or agent of the State who is charged with:</text> <level label="1"> <text>construction, improvement, or maintenance of a building or work; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>management of or provision for a State institution.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An officer or agent to whom this section applies may not:</text> <level label="1"> <text>make or participate in making for any purpose a contract that purports to bind the State to pay any amount unless money has been appropriated for that purpose and remains unspent;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>create a deficiency; or</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>incur a liability or spend money in excess of the applicable appropriation.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>The State is not liable on any contract made in violation of subsection (b) of this section.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>An officer or agent who willfully or knowingly violates subsection (b)(1) of this section is personally liable on the contract.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>If an officer or agent to whom this section applies is found guilty of willfully or knowingly violating any provision of subsection (b)(2) or (3) of this section:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the officer or agent is personally liable to the State for the amount of the deficiency or excess; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the officer or agent is subject:</text> <level label="i"> <text>for a 1st offense, to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding 2 years or both; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>for a subsequent offense, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding 2 years or both.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-238" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Capital project” means a project for which funds are spent for:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of a transportation facility, as defined in § 3-101(l) of the Transportation Article; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>capital equipment as defined by the Secretary of Transportation.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Major capital project” has the meaning stated in § 2-103.1 of the Transportation Article.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>“Modal administration” has the meaning stated in § 1-101 of the Transportation Article.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Except for an emergency project, the Department of Transportation, including the Office of the Secretary and the modal administrations, may not use an appropriation for a major capital project for any capital project that was not included in the Consolidated Transportation Program when the appropriation was made.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-239" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Disbursements and Expenditures"> <text>An officer or unit of State government may not use any part of an appropriation to settle a claim of unlawful harassment or discrimination, based on any characteristic protected by law, filed against an official or employee of State government in the individual’s personal capacity. </text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-301" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>This section applies to the following entities:</text> <level label="1"> <text>an institution that receives an appropriation for operating expenses; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>an officer or unit of the State government that:</text> <level label="i"> <text>receives an appropriation for operating expenses; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>has its expenses paid out of the fees collected by the officer or unit.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>At the end of each fiscal year, each entity that, during that fiscal year, has received an appropriation for operating expenses shall give the Comptroller notice of:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the amount of the appropriation that is unspent; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the amount of the unspent part that is needed to meet unpaid obligations incurred during the fiscal year.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-302" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <text>Except as otherwise provided by law, at the end of a fiscal year, the unspent balance of each appropriation that was made for that fiscal year to an officer or unit of the State government or to an institution reverts to the General Fund of the State.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-303" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <text>At the end of a fiscal year, the amount of the unspent part of an appropriation that is needed to meet unpaid obligations incurred during that fiscal year does not revert to the General Fund of the State.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-304" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <text>At the end of a fiscal year, the unspent part of an appropriation from a source that State law or an Act of Congress dedicates to a specific purpose does not revert to the General Fund of the State but reverts to the appropriate special fund.</text> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-305" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Capital expenditure” includes an expenditure for:</text> <level label="i"> <text>acquisition of land, buildings, or equipment; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>new construction.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Miscellaneous capital grant” means a grant for a capital project for an entity that is not a unit of State government funded in the annual State operating budget within the Department of General Services.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>At the end of a fiscal year, the unspent part of an appropriation for a capital expenditure made through the State budget or a supplementary appropriation act other than an enabling act for a general obligation loan:</text> <level label="1"> <text>does not revert to the General Fund; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>with the approval of the Board of Public Works, may be carried in a capital account until it is spent in accordance with subsection (c) of this section or until the authority to spend the appropriation for a project terminates.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>Money carried in a capital account under subsection (b) of this section may be spent only for a capital purpose.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <text>Unless otherwise provided by law, the authority to spend the appropriation for a project terminates:</text> <level label="1"> <text>1 year after the latest of abandonment, completion, or acceptance of the project; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>except to the extent the Board has encumbered money for a State project or program authorized by an appropriation act, 7 years after the effective date of the appropriation act that authorized the project unless:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the appropriation act provides otherwise; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>in an emergency, the Board unanimously grants a temporary exception for 1 year.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <level label="1"> <text>This subsection applies to a miscellaneous capital grant 3 years or more after the effective date of the appropriation act that authorized the grant.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>On or before July 1 each year, the Department of General Services shall submit to the Legislative Policy Committee, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, a report that identifies each grant for which:</text> <level label="i"> <text>no part of the grant is under contract approved by the Board; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the Board has not encumbered money for any part of the grant.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-306" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>This section applies only to St. Mary’s College of Maryland.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>At the end of a fiscal year, the unencumbered balance of each appropriation from the General Fund, including an amount received as reimbursement of statewide indirect costs, to the Board or any of these institutions reverts to the General Fund of the State.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The unencumbered balance of any other appropriation to the Board or these institutions:</text> <level label="1"> <text>does not revert to the General Fund of the State;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>shall be available as provided in the State budget or through an approved budget amendment; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>shall be reported by the Board or institution to the State Comptroller at the end of each fiscal year.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-307" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>Unless the State budget expressly provides otherwise, whenever a new or substantially renovated facility does not begin operation on the date that was used to determine the amount of the appropriation to the facility in the State budget, the part of the appropriation for operating expenses that is not needed to provide services to the same clients, students, patients, or incarcerated individuals shall revert to the General Fund or to an appropriate special fund and may not be spent for any other purpose or transferred by a budget amendment.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>If a facility under this section begins to operate after the date on which the appropriation was based but in the same fiscal year, the Department of Budget and Management shall determine, on a pro rata basis, the amount of the appropriation for operating expenses that shall revert to the General Fund.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-308" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <text>The Secretary of Budget and Management shall give each member of the General Assembly notice of:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the total reversions at the end of each fiscal year; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>any revision of an estimated reversion from an appropriation in the State budget for the current fiscal year.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-309" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>There is a State Reserve Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The State Reserve Fund comprises:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the Dedicated Purpose Account;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the Revenue Stabilization Account; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the Catastrophic Event Account.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-310" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “Account” means the Dedicated Purpose Account.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Dedicated Purpose Account is established:</text> <level label="1"> <text>to retain appropriations for major, multi-year expenditures where the magnitude and timing of cash needs are uncertain; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>beginning in fiscal year 1996, to meet specific expenditure requirements.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Governor may provide an appropriation in the budget bill to the Account for a specific purpose or purposes.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <text>For each appropriation to the Account, the Governor may:</text> <level label="1"> <text>include the funds in the State budget subject to appropriation by the General Assembly; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>transfer the funds by budget amendment from the Account to the expenditure account of the appropriate unit of State government only after the proposed budget amendment has been:</text> <level label="i"> <text>submitted to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Appropriations Committee of the General Assembly; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>subject to a 45–day review and comment period by the Legislative Policy Committee.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>The Account is a continuing, nonlapsing fund which is not subject to § 7-302 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <text>The unspent balance of an appropriation to the Account reverts to the Revenue Stabilization Account 4 years after the end of the fiscal year for which the appropriation was made.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>If the Governor determines that certain funds in the Account are no longer needed for the purpose for which they were originally appropriated, those funds may be transferred by budget amendment to the Revenue Stabilization Account after the proposed budget amendment has been:</text> <level label="i"> <text>submitted to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Appropriations Committee of the General Assembly; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>approved by the Legislative Policy Committee.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-310.1" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>Any money received by the State or otherwise subject to the direction or control of a State official, as a result of a settlement, judgment, or consent decree made or entered into after January 1, 2012:</text> <level label="1"> <text>shall be deposited in the State treasury; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>except for funds designated as restitution:</text> <level label="i"> <text>shall be expended only as authorized in the State budget bill as enacted; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>may be transferred by budget amendment.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>In negotiating any State payment under any national or multistate settlement, judgment, or consent decree, a State official may recommend restrictions on the use of that State payment but shall also request that the settlement, judgment, or consent decree also provide that the funds may be used for any public purpose, to the extent that doing so is not inconsistent with the State or its citizens securing the maximum benefit from the settlement, judgment, or consent decree.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-311" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Account” means the Revenue Stabilization Account.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Estimated General Fund revenues” means the estimated General Fund revenues for a fiscal year stated in the report of the Board of Revenue Estimates submitted to the Governor under § 6–106 of this article in December preceding the fiscal year.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>“Unappropriated General Fund surplus” does not include the amount of nonwithholding income tax revenues that exceed the capped estimate determined under § 6–104(e) of this article.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>The Revenue Stabilization Account is established to retain State revenues for future needs and reduce the need for future tax increases by moderating revenue growth.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>It is the goal of the State that 10% of estimated General Fund revenues in each fiscal year be retained in the Account.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Account is a continuing, nonlapsing fund which is not subject to § 7–302 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The Account consists of:</text> <level label="1"> <text>money appropriated in the State budget to the Account;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>money distributed to the Account by the State Comptroller as provided in § 7–329 of this subtitle; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>interest or other income earned from the investment of any portion of this Account or any other account in the State Reserve Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (f) of this section, for each fiscal year, except fiscal years 2026 and 2027:</text> <level label="i"> <text>if the Account balance is below 3% of the estimated General Fund revenues for that fiscal year, the Governor shall include in the budget bill an appropriation to the Account equal to at least $100,000,000; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>if the Account balance is at least 3% but less than 7.5% of the estimated General Fund revenues for that fiscal year, the Governor shall include in the budget bill an appropriation to the Account equal to at least the lesser of $50,000,000 or whatever amount is required for the Account balance to exceed 7.5% of the estimated General Fund revenues for that fiscal year.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>At the end of fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter, if the amount of nonwithholding income tax revenues exceeds the capped estimate determined under § 6–104(e) of this article, the State Comptroller shall distribute funds as provided in § 7–329(c) and (d) of this subtitle.</text> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <text>The appropriations required by subsection (e)(1) of this section are not required when the Account balance exceeds 7.5% of the estimated General Fund revenues.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The distributions required by subsection (e)(2) of this section are not required when the Account balance exceeds 10% of the estimated General Fund revenues for that fiscal year.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>Unless the transfer would result in an Account balance below 5% of the estimated General Fund revenues for the fiscal year in which the transfer is made, if authorized by an act of the General Assembly or specifically authorized in the State budget bill as enacted, the Governor may transfer funds from the Account to General Fund revenues as necessary to support the operation of State government on a temporary basis.</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>If the transfer would result in an Account balance below 5% of the estimated General Fund revenues for the fiscal year in which the transfer is made, the Governor may transfer funds from the Account to General Fund revenues only if the transfer is authorized by an act of the General Assembly other than the State budget bill.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Unless the transfer would result in an Account balance below 5% of the estimated General Fund revenues for the fiscal year in which the transfer is made, the Governor may, subject to the approval of the Board of Public Works, transfer funds from the Account to the Disaster Recovery Fund established under § 14–110.5 of the Public Safety Article.</text> </level> </level> <level label="h"> <text>If the budget bill as submitted to the General Assembly includes a transfer of funds from the Account pursuant to subsection (g) of this section, the budget bill as enacted by the General Assembly may provide for a reduction of the amount of the transfer from the Account by an amount up to the amount of the reductions made by the General Assembly in the General Fund appropriations.</text> </level> <level label="i"> <text>Funds of the Account may only be transferred from the Account as provided in this section and are not subject to transfer by budget amendment.</text> </level> <level label="j"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, for fiscal years 2007 through 2023, the Governor shall include in the budget bill an appropriation:</text> <level label="i"> <text>for fiscal year 2017, to the accumulation funds of the State Retirement and Pension System an amount, up to a maximum of $50,000,000, that is equal to one–half of the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>for fiscal year 2020:</text> <level label="1"> <text>to the accumulation funds of the State Retirement and Pension System an amount, up to a maximum of $50,000,000, that is equal to one–half of the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>to the Account equal to the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000, less the amount of the appropriation under item 1 of this item;</text> </level> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>for fiscal year 2021, to the Account in the amount of $291,439,149;</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>except as provided in item (v) of this paragraph, for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter:</text> <level label="1"> <text>to the accumulation funds of the State Retirement and Pension System an amount, up to a maximum of $25,000,000, that is equal to one–quarter of the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>to the Postretirement Health Benefits Trust Fund established under § 34–101 of the State Personnel and Pensions Article an amount, up to a maximum of $25,000,000, that is equal to one–quarter of the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>to the Account equal to the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000, less the amount of the appropriations under items 1 and 2 of this item; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="v"> <text>for fiscal year 2024:</text> <level label="1"> <text>to the Maryland Equity Investment Fund established under § 10–487 of the Economic Development Article an amount, up to $10,000,000, that is equal to 10% of the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>to the accumulation funds of the State Retirement and Pension System an amount, up to a maximum of $15,000,000, that is equal to 15% of the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>to the Postretirement Health Benefits Trust Fund established under § 34–101 of the State Personnel and Pensions Article an amount, up to a maximum of $25,000,000, that is equal to 25% of the amount by which the unappropriated General Fund surplus as of June 30 of the second preceding fiscal year exceeds $10,000,000.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The appropriation required under this subsection for any fiscal year may be reduced by the amount of any appropriation to the Account required to be included for that fiscal year under subsection (e) of this section.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-312" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>There is a Maryland Stadium Facilities Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Fund is:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a special, nonlapsing fund that consists of money that may be appropriated, transferred, credited, or paid to it from any source; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>not subject to § 7–302 of this subtitle.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Treasurer shall separately hold, and the Comptroller shall account for, the Fund.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund shall be invested and reinvested in the same manner as other State funds.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Any investment earnings shall be retained to the credit of the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>Money credited to the Maryland Stadium Facilities Fund may be used, in accordance with approved comprehensive financing plans, to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>pay rent to the Maryland Stadium Authority;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>with the approval of the Board of Public Works, make grants or loans, not exceeding $1 million in any fiscal year, to the Authority for its corporate purposes;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>with the approval of the Board of Public Works, finance capital construction in lieu of issuing bonds; or</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>financially support, through equity investment, loan, guarantee, or otherwise, full or partial private financing of any element of the facility.</text> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <text>At the end of the fiscal year, a transfer to the Dedicated Purpose Fund of the State Reserve Fund shall be made to the extent that the balance of revenues in the Fund exceeds:</text> <level label="i"> <text>$24 million; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the Debt Service Reserve Fund being held by or on behalf of the Maryland Stadium Authority for payment of debt service on revenue bonds issued by the Authority.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <level label="i"> <text>Any revenues transferred to the State Reserve Fund in accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be dedicated for use by the Maryland Stadium Authority and may be transferred from the State Reserve Fund by an appropriation in the budget bill or, with the approval of the Legislative Policy Committee, by budget amendment.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>The unspent balance of any revenues for the Maryland Stadium Authority in the State Reserve Fund shall revert to the General Fund 2 years after the end of the fiscal year in which the transfer was made.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-315" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>There is an Energy Overcharge Restitution Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to the provisions of § 7–302 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>There shall be credited to the Fund:</text> <level label="i"> <text>all federal fund revenues consisting of refunds received by the State from any source as a direct or indirect result of litigation or administrative proceedings prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Energy to redress violations of federal petroleum pricing regulations under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 751 through 756, and the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 757 through 760H; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>all special fund revenues received and accepted as a gift under § 2–201 of this article that are expressly given for the purpose of energy assistance or weatherization for individuals in this State.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>Revenues received by the State as a result of claims representing purchases by the State are excluded from the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Treasurer shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>invest and reinvest the Fund in the same manner as other State funds; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>credit any investment earnings to the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>Expenditures from the Fund shall be made by:</text> <level label="1"> <text>an appropriation in the annual State budget; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a budget amendment in accordance with § 7–209 of this title, provided that any budget amendment shall be submitted to and approved by the Legislative Policy Committee prior to the expenditure or obligation of funds.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>In accordance with the provisions of subsection (f) of this section, the Director of the Maryland Energy Administration or the designee of the Director shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>administer the Fund;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>develop plans, prepare and submit proposals to the Governor for Fund use, and undertake any action that is necessary to obtain for the Fund all energy overcharge refunds and judgment awards to which the citizens of the State have a legal entitlement;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>assess and determine the respective needs of the citizens of the State and develop recommendations for the allocation and disbursement of funds in accordance with those needs pursuant to the provisions of subsection (f) of this section;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>conduct public hearings at least twice a year at times and places the Director or the designee of the Director determines; and</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>perform other duties as may be assigned by the Governor.</text> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund shall be expended subject to any restrictions on its use or other limitations on its allocation that are:</text> <level label="i"> <text>expressly provided by statute; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>required as a condition of the acceptance of funds.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The Fund shall be expended:</text> <level label="i"> <text>for emergency energy assistance provided under § 5–5A–07(a) of the Human Services Article;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>for energy assistance programs provided under § 5–5A–07(b) of the Human Services Article;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>for energy assistance and weatherization programs provided under § 4–211(c) of the Housing and Community Development Article and Title 9, Subtitle 20 of the State Government Article;</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>for energy extension service and low–income home–energy programs provided under 42 U.S.C. §§ 7001 through 7011 and 8621 through 8629;</text> </level> <level label="v"> <text>for other energy assistance or weatherization programs meeting the federal restitutive objectives governing the distribution of overcharge refunds to the states;</text> </level> <level label="vi"> <text>for any other program within the definition of “energy conservation programs” as provided by Pub. L. No. 97–377, 96 Stat. 1830, § 155 (1982) and subsequent amendments, including the State Energy Efficiency Programs Improvement Act of 1990, Pub. Law No. 101–440;</text> </level> <level label="vii"> <text>for energy efficiency and economic development loans provided under Title 9, Subtitle 20A of the State Government Article; or</text> </level> <level label="viii"> <text>for any other purpose required as a condition of their acceptance.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>In addition to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this subsection, priority shall be given to the energy assistance and weatherization programs.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>Disbursements from the Fund to programs funded by the State or with federal funds administered by the State shall be used solely to supplement, and not to supplant, funds otherwise available for such programs under federal or State law.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-317" future_version_removed="true" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>There is a Cigarette Restitution Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Subject to subsections (h) and (i) of this section, there shall be credited to the Fund all revenues consisting of funds received by the State from any source resulting, directly or indirectly, from any judgment against or settlement with tobacco product manufacturers, tobacco research associations, or any other person in the tobacco industry relating to litigation, administrative proceedings, or any other claims made or prosecuted by the State to recover damages for violations of State law.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>There shall be credited to the Fund all money collected under § 24–508 of the Health – General Article or § 5–608 of the Labor and Employment Article.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Treasurer shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>invest and reinvest the Fund in the same manner as other State funds; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>credit any investment earnings to the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>Expenditures from the Fund shall be made by an appropriation in the annual State budget.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund shall be expended subject to any restrictions on its use or other limitations on its allocation that are:</text> <level label="i"> <text>expressly provided by statute;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>required as a condition of the acceptance of funds; or</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>determined to be necessary to avoid recoupment by the federal government of money paid to the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Except as otherwise provided under subsection (h) of this section, disbursements from the Fund to programs funded by the State or with federal funds administered by the State shall be used solely to supplement, and not to supplant, funds otherwise available for the programs under federal or State law as provided in this section.</text> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <text>The Cigarette Restitution Fund shall be used to fund:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program established under Title 13, Subtitle 10 of the Health – General Article;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program established under Title 13, Subtitle 11 of the Health – General Article;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the activities of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission, in accordance with § 13–611 of the Economic Development Article;</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029, the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission Fund, in accordance with subsection (g) of this section;</text> </level> <level label="v"> <text>the public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention established under Title 13, Subtitle 11A of the Health – General Article; and</text> </level> <level label="vi"> <text>other programs that serve the following purposes:</text> <level label="1"> <text>reduction of the use of tobacco products by individuals under the age of 21 years;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>implementation of the Southern Maryland Regional Strategy–Action Plan for Agriculture adopted by the Tri–County Council for Southern Maryland with an emphasis on alternative crop uses for agricultural land now used for growing tobacco;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>public and school education campaigns to decrease tobacco use with initial emphasis on areas targeted by tobacco manufacturers in marketing and promoting cigarette and tobacco products;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>smoking cessation programs;</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>enforcement of the laws regarding tobacco sales;</text> </level> <level label="6"> <text>the purposes of the Maryland Health Care Foundation under Title 20, Subtitle 5 of the Health – General Article;</text> </level> <level label="7"> <text>primary health care in rural areas of the State and areas targeted by tobacco manufacturers in marketing and promoting cigarette and tobacco products;</text> </level> <level label="8"> <text>prevention, treatment, and research concerning cancer, heart disease, lung disease, tobacco product use, and tobacco control, including operating costs and related capital projects;</text> </level> <level label="9"> <text>substance abuse treatment and prevention programs; and</text> </level> <level label="10"> <text>any other public purpose.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The provisions of this subsection may not be construed to affect the Governor’s powers with respect to a request for an appropriation in the annual budget bill.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <level label="1"> <text>Amounts may only be expended from the Fund through appropriations in the State budget bill as provided in this subsection.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The Governor shall include in the annual budget bill appropriations from the Fund equivalent to the lesser of $100,000,000 or 90% of the funds estimated to be available to the Fund in the fiscal year for which the appropriations are made.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>For each fiscal year for which appropriations are made, at least 50% of the appropriations shall be made for those purposes enumerated in subsection (f)(1)(i), (ii), and (vi)1 through 9 of this section subject to the requirement of subsection (e)(2) of this section.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <level label="i"> <text>This paragraph does not apply in fiscal year 2026.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>For each fiscal year for which appropriations are made, at least 30% of the appropriations shall be made for the purposes of the Maryland Medical Assistance Program.</text> </level> </level> <level label="5"> <text>For each fiscal year for which appropriations are made, 0.15% of the Fund shall be appropriated for the purposes of enforcement of Title 16, Subtitle 5 of the Business Regulation Article.</text> </level> <level label="6"> <level label="i"> <text>This paragraph does not apply to fiscal year 2027.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>For each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $8,000,000 to the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="7"> <text>Any additional appropriations, not subject to paragraph (3), paragraph (4), or paragraph (5) of this subsection, may be made for any lawful purpose.</text> </level> </level> <level label="h"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund shall include a separate account consisting of payments received by the State as a result of litigation by participating manufacturers related to the State’s diligent enforcement of Title 16, Subtitle 4 of the Business Regulation Article.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <level label="i"> <text>Except as provided in subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, distributions from the separate account may be used only to supplant the General Fund appropriation to the historically black colleges and universities required under § 15–128 of the Education Article.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>For fiscal year 2026 only, distributions from the separate account may be used to support Medicaid expenses.</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>For fiscal year 2027 only, any amount that is distributed from the separate account that is in excess of the first $35,000,000 distributed may remain in the account or be used for purposes other than supplanting the General Fund appropriation to the historically black colleges and universities required under § 15–128 of the Education Article.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="i"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund shall include a separate account consisting of payments received by the State from any judgment, settlement, penalty, offer of compromise, or any other enforcement action related to the sale and marketing of electronic smoking devices.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Distributions from the separate account established under paragraph (1) of this subsection may be used, consistent with any other provision of State law, to supplement the General Fund appropriations designated for programs under subsection (f) of this section with the purpose of reducing the use of tobacco products by individuals under the age of 21 years.</text> </level> </level> <level label="j"> <text>For each program, project, or activity receiving funds appropriated under subsection (g)(3) of this section, the Governor shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>develop appropriate statements of vision, mission, key goals, key objectives, and key performance indicators and report these statements in a discrete part of the State budget submission, which shall also provide data for key performance indicators; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>report annually, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, to the General Assembly no later than December 1 on:</text> <level label="i"> <text>total funds expended, by program and subdivision, in the prior fiscal year from the Fund established under this section; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the specific outcomes or public benefits resulting from that expenditure.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-324" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Account” means the Catastrophic Event Account.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Fund” means the State Disaster Recovery Fund established under § 14–110.5 of the Public Safety Article.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Subject to the provisions of this section, the Account is established to enable the State or a local government to respond without undue delay to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a natural disaster or other catastrophic situation;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>federal employee financial hardship from a full or partial federal government shutdown due to a lapse in federal appropriations that cannot be taken care of within the resources of existing appropriations; or</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>former federal employee financial hardship from the closure, relocation, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government, or other similar circumstances.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Governor may provide an appropriation in the budget bill to the Account.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <level label="1"> <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, after a 10–day review and comment period by the Legislative Policy Committee, the Governor may transfer funds by budget amendment from the Account to:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the expenditure accounts of the appropriate unit of State government or unit of local government; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>subject to subsection (e)(2)(ii) of this section, the State Disaster Recovery Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>If the federal government is in a full or partial shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations, after a 2–day review and comment period by the Legislative Policy Committee, the Governor may transfer funds by budget amendment from the Account to the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund established under § 7–327 of this subtitle.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>Funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account:</text> <level label="1"> <text>may not be used to offset operating deficiencies in regular programs of State government; but</text> </level> <level label="2"> <level label="i"> <text>may be expended to assist a unit of State government or unit of local government in funding costs in connection with:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a natural disaster;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a catastrophic situation;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>a full or partial federal government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations; or</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>a closure, relocation, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>may be transferred to the State Disaster Recovery Fund if:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the balance of the Fund has been depleted due to use or transfer; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the estimated costs for providing adequate disaster relief for a natural disaster or catastrophic situation are in excess of the Fund’s balance.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <text>The Account is a continuing, nonlapsing fund which is not subject to § 7–302 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The Treasurer shall separately hold, and the Comptroller shall account for, the Account.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The Account shall be invested and reinvested in the same manner as other State funds.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>Any investment earnings shall be subject to § 7–311(d) of this subtitle.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>Money appropriated to the Account does not revert to the Revenue Stabilization Account.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-325" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Council” means the Maryland State Arts Council.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“General fund growth adjustment” means the percentage by which the projected total General Fund revenues for the upcoming fiscal year exceed the revised estimate of total General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year, as contained in the report of estimated State revenues submitted by the Board of Revenue Estimates to the Governor under § 6–106(b) of this article.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>For fiscal years 2013 through 2024, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill a General Fund appropriation for the Council in an amount not less than the amount of the General Fund appropriation for the Council for the immediately preceding fiscal year increased by the general fund growth adjustment.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>For fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Governor shall include in the annual budget bill a General Fund appropriation for the Council in an amount not less than the result of the following calculation:</text> <level label="i"> <text>any funds distributed to the Council in the immediately preceding fiscal year in accordance with § 2–202 of the Tax – General Article increased by the general fund growth adjustment; plus</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the amount of the General Fund appropriation for the Council for the immediately preceding fiscal year increased by the general fund growth adjustment; minus</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the amount of funds distributed to the Council in the immediately preceding fiscal year in accordance with § 2–202 of the Tax – General Article.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Legislative Auditor has the authority to conduct a review or audit of any recipient of a grant from the Council.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-326" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Public School Construction Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund which is not subject to § 7–302 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Fund consists of money transferred by the Camden Yards Financing Funds as required under § 10–652 of the Economic Development Article.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The Treasurer shall separately hold, and the Comptroller shall account for, the Fund.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <text>Subject to the approval of the Interagency Commission on School Construction, money credited to the Fund shall be used only for public school construction projects and public school capital improvements consistent with the provisions of Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Education Article.</text> </level> <level label="f"> <text>Money from the Fund may only be transferred from the Fund to the extent authorized by an appropriation as enacted in the annual State budget bill and is not subject to transfer by budget amendment.</text> </level> <level label="g"> <text>It is the intent of the General Assembly that the funds provided for school construction in the Fund be in addition to and not in substitution of general funds or any other funds provided in the Governor’s allowance for public school construction.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-327" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>There is a Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The purpose of the Fund is to provide loans to State residents who are:</text> <level label="1"> <text>employees of the federal government, required to report to work, and who are not being paid because of a full or partial federal government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations after January 1, 2025; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>in the immediately preceding 6 months, and on or after January 1, 2025, were terminated from employment by the federal government due to the closure, relocation, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government, or other similar circumstances beyond the employees’ control, and who are experiencing financial hardship as determined by the Maryland Department of Labor.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The Maryland Department of Labor 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 this subtitle that shall be available in perpetuity for the purpose of providing loans in accordance with the provisions of this section.</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 label="3"> <text>The Maryland Department of Labor is authorized to disclose information to third–party vendors to verify federal employment for the purpose of assisting with the implementation of the Fund, subject to privacy considerations.</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>any interest earnings of the Fund;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>money transferred from the Catastrophic Event Account in accordance with § 7–324 of this subtitle;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>repayments on loans made from the Fund; and</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>any other money from any other source accepted for the benefit of the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>The Fund shall be used only to provide no–interest loans to State residents who are:</text> <level label="1"> <text>employees of the federal government, required to report to work, and who are not being paid because of a full or partial federal government shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations after January 1, 2025; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>in the immediately preceding 6 months, and on or after January 1, 2025, were terminated from employment by the federal government due to the closure, relocation, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government, or other similar circumstances beyond the employees’ control, and who are experiencing financial hardship as determined by the Maryland Department of Labor.</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"> <level label="1"> <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Maryland Department of Labor shall establish procedures and eligibility criteria for loans from the Fund.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The eligibility criteria shall include that:</text> <level label="i"> <level label="1"> <text>the federal government is in a full or partial shutdown due to a lapse in appropriations; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a unit of the federal government has been closed, been relocated, experienced mass layoffs, or experienced other similar circumstances; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>an individual applying for a loan from the Fund is, a resident of the State who is:</text> <level label="1"> <text>an employee of the federal government, required to report to work, and not being paid because of the full or partial federal government shutdown due to the lapse in appropriations after January 1, 2025; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a former employee of the federal government who, within the 6 months immediately preceding the date of the loan application, and on or after January 1, 2025, was terminated from employment by the federal government due to the closure, relocation, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government, or other similar circumstances beyond the individual’s control, and who is experiencing financial hardship as determined by the Maryland Department of Labor.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The Maryland Department of Labor may establish other criteria to best assist federal employees facing financial hardship.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>The procedures shall include:</text> <level label="i"> <text>application procedures;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>payment procedures from the Fund; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>if repayment is required, repayment procedures, including timelines, for an individual to repay a loan from the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="5"> <text>The Maryland Department of Labor may forgive a loan provided under this section.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-328" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>There is a Mortgage Loan Servicing Practices Settlement Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Except for restitution and funds designated as fines, civil penalties, and money that are otherwise required under Maryland law, a judgment, or a settlement agreement to be paid into the General Fund of the State, there shall be credited to the Fund all revenues consisting of funds received by the State from any source resulting, directly or indirectly, from any judgment against or settlement with bank mortgage servicers or any other person in the mortgage servicing industry relating to litigation, administrative proceedings, or any other claims made or prosecuted by the State to recover damages for violations of State law.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Treasurer shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>invest and reinvest the Fund in the same manner as other State funds; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>credit any investment earnings to the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>Expenditures from the Fund shall be made by an appropriation in the annual State budget or may be transferred by budget amendment.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund shall be expended subject to any restrictions on its use or other limitations on its allocation that are:</text> <level label="i"> <text>expressly provided by statute; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>required as a condition of the acceptance of funds.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>It is the intent of the General Assembly that disbursements from the Fund to programs funded by the State or with federal funds administered by the State shall be used as provided in this section solely to supplement, and not to supplant, funds otherwise available for the programs under federal or State law.</text> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <text>The Mortgage Loan Servicing Practices Settlement Fund shall be used for housing and foreclosure–relief purposes and for related investigation and enforcement activities, including:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the provision of housing counseling;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>legal assistance related to foreclosure, evictions, and housing activities;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>criminal or civil investigations of fraud related to housing and the securitization of mortgage loans;</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>relevant enforcement activities;</text> </level> <level label="v"> <text>foreclosure prevention, remediation, and restitution;</text> </level> <level label="vi"> <text>programs to address community blight;</text> </level> <level label="vii"> <text>programs reasonably targeted to benefit persons harmed by mortgage fraud; and</text> </level> <level label="viii"> <text>any other public purpose reasonably related to housing and foreclosure relief.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The Mortgage Loan Servicing Practices Settlement Fund may be used to provide legal assistance related to any type of legal proceeding.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The provisions of this subsection may not be construed to affect the Governor’s powers with respect to a request for an appropriation in the annual budget bill.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>For each program, project, or activity under subsection (f)(1) of this section for which funds are appropriated, the Governor shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>develop appropriate statements of vision, mission, key goals, objectives, and performance indicators and report these statements in a discrete part of the State budget submission, which shall also provide data for key performance indicators; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>on or before October 1 of each year until 2016, report, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, to the General Assembly on:</text> <level label="i"> <text>total funds expended, by program and subdivision, in the prior fiscal year from the Fund established under this section; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the specific outcomes or public benefits resulting from that expenditure.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-329" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Fund” means the Fiscal Responsibility Fund established under § 7–330 of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <level label="i"> <text>“Nonwithholding income tax revenues” means the State share of income tax quarterly estimated and final payments with returns made by individuals, as defined in § 10–101 of the Tax – General Article.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>“Nonwithholding income tax revenues” does not include:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the county share of income tax quarterly estimated and final payments with returns made by individuals;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>income tax payments made by corporations;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>income tax refunds paid to individuals or corporations; or</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>income tax withholding.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>At the end of fiscal year 2020, and each fiscal year thereafter, if General Fund revenues for the fiscal year are less than the March estimate of the Board of Revenue Estimates, the amount of nonwithholding income tax revenues that exceeds the capped estimate determined under § 6–104(e) of this article shall be applied to close the gap in revenues for that fiscal year.</text> </level> <level label="b–1"> <text>At the end of fiscal year 2022 only, if the amount of nonwithholding income tax revenues that exceeds the capped estimate determined under § 6–104(e) of this article exceeds the amount necessary to close the gap in revenues under subsection (b) of this section, the State Comptroller shall distribute the remainder to the Fund for the purpose of providing, beginning July 1, 2022, a cost–of–living adjustment of up to 4.5% for permanent employees in the Executive Branch of State government who are in a bargaining unit that is represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO, excluding a bargaining unit represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO Local 1859.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (b–1) of this section, if the amount of nonwithholding income tax revenues that exceeds the capped estimate determined under § 6–104(e) of this article exceeds the amount necessary to close the gap in revenues under subsection (b) of this section, and if the balance of the Revenue Stabilization Account under § 7–311 of this subtitle is less than 6% of the estimated General Fund revenues for that fiscal year, the State Comptroller shall distribute to the Revenue Stabilization Account the lesser of:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the remaining balance of nonwithholding income tax revenues in excess of the capped estimate determined under § 6–104(e) of this article; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the amount required for the Revenue Stabilization Account balance to equal 6% of the estimated General Fund revenues for that fiscal year.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (b–1) of this section, if the amount of nonwithholding income tax revenues that exceeds the capped estimate determined under § 6–104(e) of this article exceeds the amount the State Comptroller is required to distribute to the Revenue Stabilization Account under subsection (c) of this section, the State Comptroller shall distribute:</text> <level label="1"> <text>subject to subsection (e) of this section, 50% of the remaining amount to the Revenue Stabilization Account; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the remainder to the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>The distribution to the Revenue Stabilization Account under subsection (d)(1) of this section does not apply if the amount in the Revenue Stabilization Account exceeds 10% of General Fund revenues.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-330" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Fund” means the Fiscal Responsibility Fund.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <level label="i"> <text>“Nonwithholding income tax revenues” means the State share of income tax quarterly estimated and final payments with returns made by individuals, as defined in § 10–101 of the Tax – General Article.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>“Nonwithholding income tax revenues” does not include:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the county share of income tax quarterly estimated and final payments with returns made by individuals;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>income tax payments made by corporations;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>income tax refunds paid to individuals or corporations; or</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>income tax withholding.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>There is a Fiscal Responsibility Fund.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The purpose of the Fund is to retain the amount of nonwithholding income tax revenues deposited to the Fund in accordance with § 7–329(d)(2) of this subtitle until the revenues are appropriated in the State budget.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The State Comptroller 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 this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The State Treasurer shall hold the Fund separately, and the State Comptroller shall account for the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <text>The Fund consists of nonwithholding income tax revenues that exceed the capped estimate determined under § 6–104(e) of this article deposited into the Fund by the State Comptroller under § 7–329(d)(2) of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="g"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, the Fund may be used only to provide pay–as–you–go capital funds for:</text> <level label="i"> <text>public school construction and public school capital improvement projects, in accordance with Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Education Article;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>capital projects at public community colleges; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>capital projects at four–year public institutions of higher education.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>For fiscal year 2023 only, money in the Fund shall be used to provide, beginning July 1, 2022, a cost–of–living adjustment of up to 4.5% for permanent employees in the Executive Branch of State government who are in a bargaining unit that is represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO, excluding a bargaining unit represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO Local 1859.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>For fiscal year 2026 only, money in the Fund may be used for major information technology development projects, as defined in § 3.5–301(k) of this article, that are funded by the Information Technology Investment Fund established under § 3.5–309 of this article.</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 General Fund of the State.</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>Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, the Governor shall include in the budget bill for the second following fiscal year an appropriation equal to the amount in the Fund for pay–as–you–go capital projects.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Money expended from the Fund for pay–as–you–go capital projects is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for capital projects, including those funded with pay–as–you–go funds and the proceeds from the sale of general obligation bonds.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The Governor shall include in the budget bill submitted at the 2022 Session of the General Assembly an appropriation equal to the amount distributed to the Fund in accordance with § 7–329(b–1) of this subtitle to provide, beginning July 1, 2022, a cost–of–living adjustment of up to 4.5% for permanent employees in the Executive Branch of State government who are in a bargaining unit that is represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO, excluding a bargaining unit represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL–CIO Local 1859.</text> </level> </level> <level label="k"> <text>Except for the fiscal year 2026 appropriation described in subsection (g)(3) of this section, at the end of a fiscal year, the unspent balance of each appropriation that was made for that fiscal year from the Fund reverts to the Fund.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-331" future_version_removed="true" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Unspent Balances"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “Fund” means the Opioid Restitution Fund.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>There is an Opioid Restitution Fund.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The purpose of the Fund is to retain the amount of settlement revenues deposited to the Fund in accordance with subsection (e)(1) of this section.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <level label="1"> <text>The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of this subtitle.</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="e"> <text>The Fund consists of:</text> <level label="1"> <text>all revenues received by the State from any source resulting, directly or indirectly, from any judgment against, or settlement with, opioid manufacturers, opioid research associations, or any other person in the opioid industry relating to any claims made or prosecuted by the State to recover damages for violations of State law; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the interest earnings of the Fund.</text> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <text>The Fund may be used only to provide funds for the purposes specified in settlement agreements and judgments relating to claims by the State against opioid manufacturers, opioid research associations, or any other person in the opioid industry for violations of State law, including:</text> <level label="1"> <text>programs, services, supports, and resources for evidence–based substance use disorder prevention, treatment, recovery, or harm reduction;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>supporting community–based nonprofit recovery organizations that provide nonclinical substance use recovery support services in the State;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>addressing racial disparities in access to prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery support services;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>addressing socioeconomic disparities in access to prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery support services;</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>evidence–informed substance use disorder prevention, treatment recovery, or harm reduction pilot programs or demonstration studies that are not evidence–based if the Opioid Restitution Fund Advisory Council, established under § 7.5–902 of the Health – General Article:</text> <level label="i"> <text>determines that emerging evidence supports the distribution of money for the pilot program or that there is a reasonable basis for funding the demonstration study with the expectation of creating an evidence–based program; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>approves the use of money for the pilot program or demonstration study;</text> </level> </level> <level label="6"> <text>evaluations of the effectiveness and outcomes reporting for substance use disorder abatement infrastructure, programs, services, supports, and resources for which money from the Fund was used, including evaluations of the impact on access to harm reduction services or treatment for substance use disorders and the reduction in drug–related mortality;</text> </level> <level label="7"> <text>operating expenses and personnel costs for investigations, enforcement actions, and other activities conducted by the Opioids Enforcement Unit within the Office of the Attorney General that are related to the recovery of funds from opioid–related judgments or settlements; and</text> </level> <level label="8"> <text>the Buprenorphine Training Grant Program established under § 13–5802 of the Health – General Article.</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"> <level label="1"> <text>Expenditures from the Fund may be made only in accordance with the State budget.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>For settlement funds received in accordance with the final distributor agreement of July 21, 2021, with McKesson Corporation, Amerisource Bergen Corporation, and Cardinal Health Incorporated, as amended, the Janssen settlement agreement of July 21, 2021, as amended, or any other opioid–related court or administrative judgment or settlement agreement involving the State and one or more of its political subdivisions:</text> <level label="i"> <text>appropriations from the Fund in the State budget shall be made in accordance with the allocation and distribution of funds to the State and its political subdivisions:</text> <level label="1"> <text>as agreed on in the State–subdivision agreement of January 21, 2022, as amended; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>required under any other opioid–related court or administrative judgment or settlement agreement, or any similar agreement reached under an opioid–related court or administrative judgment or settlement agreement, involving the State and one or more of its political subdivisions; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the Secretary of Health shall establish and administer a grant program for the distribution of funds to political subdivisions of the State in accordance with:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the State–subdivision agreement of January 21, 2022, as amended; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the requirements of any other opioid–related court or administrative judgment or settlement agreement, or any similar agreement reached under an opioid–related court or administrative judgment or settlement agreement, involving the State and one or more of its political subdivisions.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The Attorney General shall identify and designate the controlling version of any agreement or amendment described under paragraph (2) of this subsection.</text> </level> </level> <level label="i"> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>This paragraph does not apply in fiscal years 2025 and 2026.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>Money expended from the Fund for the programs and services described under subsection (f) of this section is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for the programs and services.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Except as specified in subsection (f) of this section, money expended from the Fund may not be used for administrative expenses.</text> </level> </level> <level label="j"> <text>The Governor shall:</text> <level label="1"> <text>develop key goals, key objectives, and key performance indicators relating to substance use treatment and prevention efforts;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>subject to subsection (h)(2) of this section, at least twice annually, consult with the Opioid Restitution Fund Advisory Council to identify recommended appropriations from the Fund; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>report on or before November 1 each year, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, to the General Assembly on:</text> <level label="i"> <text>an accounting of total funds expended from the Fund in the immediately preceding fiscal year, by:</text> <level label="1"> <text>use;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>if applicable, jurisdiction; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>budget program and subdivision;</text> </level> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the performance indicators and progress toward achieving the goals and objectives developed under item (1) of this subsection; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the recommended appropriations from the Fund identified in accordance with item (2) of this subsection.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="k"> <text>Beginning on or before October 1, 2025, and each October 1 thereafter, the Office of the Attorney General shall report to the Governor and, in accordance with § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the General Assembly on the status of activity of the Opioids Enforcement Unit, including:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the number of investigations taking place;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the number of lawsuits filed; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the disposition of lawsuits filed.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-401" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Supervision of Recipients"> <level label="a"> <text>The Comptroller may direct the units of the State government to use the method that the Comptroller sets for:</text> <level label="1"> <text>keeping books and accounts;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>adopting uniform systems of accounting; or</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>making reports.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Comptroller shall require a unit of the State government to comply with each recommendation of the Legislative Auditor in an audit report on the unit concerning:</text> <level label="i"> <text>its record keeping;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>its use of a uniform system of accounting; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>its submission of reports.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The Comptroller may waive compliance with a recommendation of the Legislative Auditor if the unit satisfies the Comptroller that the recommendation should not be carried out.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The Comptroller shall report to the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee on actions under this subsection.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>The report shall include the reasons for waiving compliance with a recommendation of the Legislative Auditor.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-402" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Supervision of Recipients"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Social organization” means an association or corporation that is operated for a charitable, cultural, educational, historical, humane, industrial, medical, or military purpose.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“State aid” means a contribution, grant, or subsidy of money from the State Treasury.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>Each social organization that, by statute, is to receive State aid shall make an agreement:</text> <level label="i"> <text>with the unit of the State government to which the money for the State aid has been appropriated; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>if the money is not appropriated to a unit, with the Comptroller.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>An agreement under this subsection shall:</text> <level label="i"> <text>define the purposes and terms of the State aid; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>require the social organization to submit to the unit or Comptroller a report on expenditure of the State aid.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>Unless the agreement sets another date for submission of the report, a social organization shall submit the report on or before September 1 after the close of the fiscal year in which the social organization received the State aid.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The report shall:</text> <level label="i"> <text>contain an itemized statement that fully and accurately accounts for how the State aid was spent; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>be verified:</text> <level label="1"> <text>by an officer of the social organization; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>for a military organization, by the commanding officer.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>After a unit or the Comptroller receives a report under this section, the unit or Comptroller:</text> <level label="1"> <text>shall determine whether the social organization has spent and accounted for the State aid in accordance with the agreement; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>if the unit or Comptroller finds inconsistencies between the agreement and the expenditures or operations of the social organization, shall give the Department of Budget and Management and, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, the Department of Legislative Services notice of the inconsistencies.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>To ensure compliance with this section, the unit or the Comptroller may audit the financial records of a social organization.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-403" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Supervision of Recipients"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Financial records” means the generally accepted budgets, journals, ledgers, reports of expenses and revenue, or other forms of financial documentation that may be required as a condition for receiving State funds.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Health or social welfare organization” means an organization that is operated for the promotion of the public health or social welfare, whether or not the organization is tax exempt under § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>“Uniform accounting standards” means:</text> <level label="i"> <text>accounting standards and procedures that the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has adopted for voluntary health or social welfare organizations; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>uniform standards of an equivalent nature that:</text> <level label="1"> <text>are applied consistently; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>conform to generally accepted accounting principles.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>This section does not apply to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a dentist;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a hospital that the State Health Services Cost Review Commission regulates;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>a pharmacist; or</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>a physician.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>This subsection applies only to a contract for the provision of health or social welfare services between:</text> <level label="i"> <text>a unit of the State government; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>a health or social welfare organization or an individual.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>A contract with an individual who is a Maryland resident or with a health or social welfare organization incorporated under the laws of this State shall require the individual or the health or social welfare organization to keep financial records in accordance with uniform accounting standards.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>A contract with any other individual or private health or social welfare organization may require the individual or private health or social welfare organization to keep financial records in accordance with uniform accounting standards.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>A unit of the State government that makes a grant to a private health or social welfare organization shall require the private health or social welfare organization to keep financial records in accordance with uniform accounting standards.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <text>A unit of the State government may not require an individual or a private health or social welfare organization to keep financial records in a manner that is inconsistent with uniform accounting standards.</text> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>The chief accountant of a unit of the State government or of the principal department to which the unit is assigned may examine the financial records of an individual or a health or social welfare organization that receives a grant from the unit.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>The accountant shall give 30 days’ prior notice of an examination under this paragraph.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <level label="i"> <text>Subject to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, the chief accountant of a unit or of the principal department to which the unit is assigned shall examine any financial records required to be kept under subsection (c) of this section.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>For the financial records required to be kept under subsection (c)(2) of this section, the accountant shall give 30 days’ prior notice of the examination under this paragraph.</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>For any financial records required to be kept under subsection (c)(3) of this section, the accountant shall examine the financial records when an examination is authorized by:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the secretary of the principal department to which the unit is assigned; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>if the unit is not assigned to a principal department, the head of the unit.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>A unit of the State government may not:</text> <level label="1"> <text>make a grant to an organization that fails to keep financial records in accordance with uniform accounting standards; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>make a contract with an organization or individual who fails to keep financial records as required under this section.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-404" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Supervision of Recipients"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Department” means a principal department of the Executive Branch of the State government.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Independent unit” means a unit of the State government that is not in a department.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>This section does not apply to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a private provider who provides care for 4 or fewer individuals;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a provider from another state;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>a provider of family child care for 6 or fewer children; or</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>a foster parent with whom a child is placed by the Social Services Administration.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>After consultation with the Legislative Auditor, the head of each department or independent unit that contracts with a private provider for care of an individual in a nongovernmental facility shall specify the intervals and manner of examination of the accounts of the private provider.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The examination shall determine whether costs of care for which the private provider has received reimbursement are in accordance with the guidelines of the department or unit for allowable costs.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The department or independent unit shall pay for the examination from the appropriation to the department or independent unit in the State budget.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <text>If an independent certified public accountant is to examine the accounts of a private provider, the head of the department or independent unit shall choose the accountant in accordance with a procedure that the Legislative Auditor has reviewed.</text> </level> <level label="f"> <level label="1"> <text>Whenever an examination under this section shows that the reimbursement that a provider has received during the period covered by the examination exceeds the total allowable costs, the department or independent unit shall collect:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the full amount of the excess; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>a lesser amount if the department or independent unit finds that the collection of the full amount would impair seriously the financial condition of the provider.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Whenever an examination under this section shows that the allowable costs exceed the reimbursement that the provider has received, the department or independent unit shall pay to the provider the difference between the reimbursement and the lesser of the allowable costs or the maximum rate of payment as provided in the State budget.</text> </level> </level> <level label="g"> <text>The head of a department or independent unit shall send to the Secretary of Budget and Management and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the Legislative Auditor:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a copy of a report of each examination under this section; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a written statement that contains the basis for any finding made under subsection (f)(1)(ii) of this section.</text> </level> </level> <level label="h"> <text>A provision of this section has effect only to the extent that the provision does not conflict with federal law.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-405" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Supervision of Recipients"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Developmentally disabled individual” means a severe chronic disability of an individual that:</text> <level label="i"> <text>is attributable to a physical or mental impairment, other than the sole diagnosis of mental illness, or to a combination of mental and physical impairments;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>is manifested before the individual attains the age of 22;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>is likely to continue indefinitely;</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>results in an inability to live independently without external support or continuing and regular assistance; and</text> </level> <level label="v"> <text>reflects the need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services that are individually planned and coordinated for the individual.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Elderly individual” means an individual who is 60 years old or older.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>In addition to any other requirement of this subtitle, each corporation that administers services to elderly or developmentally disabled individuals and receives funds from the State shall be subject to audit of its financial records by:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the State Comptroller; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the State Legislative Auditor.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>This section does not apply to services administered by a nonprofit hospital corporation.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="7-406" title_number="7" title_name="Appropriations" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Supervision of Recipients"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Department” means the Department of Budget and Management.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <level label="i"> <text>“Grantee” means a for profit or nonprofit entity or association that receives State aid during a fiscal year.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>“Grantee” does not include a unit of State or local government.</text> </level> </level> <level label="4"> <text>“Grantor” means a unit of State government or other State entity that provides State aid to a grantee.</text> </level> <level label="5"> <level label="i"> <text>“State aid” means a contribution, grant, or subsidy of $50,000 or more provided through the State operating or capital budget or by the action of a unit of State government from State funds appropriated to that unit.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>“State aid” does not include reimbursements to providers participating in a State program.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>A grantor shall submit a report as provided in this subsection to the Department on or before September 1 after the close of each fiscal year in which the grantor provided State aid to a grantee.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>The report shall contain:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the name, address, and zip code of each grantee that received State aid from the grantor during the previous fiscal year;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the amount of any State aid provided to the grantee; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>a description of the State aid provided to the grantee.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The reports required under this subsection shall be in the form and format, including electronic format, that the Department, after consultation with the Department of Information Technology, requires.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>The Department of Information Technology, in consultation with the Department of Budget and Management, shall develop and operate a searchable website, accessible to the public at no cost through the Internet.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The searchable website shall contain:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the name of the grantor that provided the State aid;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the name of the grantee that received the State aid;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the amount of the State aid that was provided to the grantee;</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>the zip code of the grantee that received the State aid; and</text> </level> <level label="v"> <text>a description of the State aid that was provided to the grantee.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>The searchable website shall allow a user to search by the following data fields:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the grantee that received the State aid;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the grantor that provided the State aid; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the zip code of any grantee that received State aid.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The Office of Legislative Audits may conduct an audit or review of a grantee in accordance with §§ 2–1221 through 2–1227 of the State Government Article.</text> </level> </section>