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<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>
