FIRST REGULAR SESSION
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHAAF.
Read 1st time March 17, 2005 and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 192.900 and 701.049, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof four new sections relating to funding for the department of health and senior services.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 192.900 and 701.049, RSMo, are repealed and four new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 192.324, 192.326, 192.900, and 701.049, to read as follows:
192.324. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Department of Health and Senior Services Administrative and Cost Allocation Fund". The state treasurer shall be the custodian of the fund and the fund shall be administered by the director of the department of health and senior services. The fund shall be funded annually by appropriations, and deposits and transfers thereto. The fund shall contain moneys transferred or paid to the department in return for goods and services provided internally by the department, or to any governmental entity or the public. The commissioner of administration shall approve disbursements from the fund at the request of the director of the department or the director's designee in accordance with the appropriations made therefore. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, moneys in the fund shall not lapse to the credit of general revenue at the end of the biennium. All interest earned on the fund shall be deposited in and credited to the fund.
192.326. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Department of Health and Senior Services Disaster Fund", to which the general assembly may appropriate moneys and from which moneys may be appropriated annually to the department of health and senior services. Moneys in the fund shall be expended during a state of emergency at the direction of the governor and upon issuance of an emergency declaration which shall set forth the emergency and shall state that it requires the expenditure of public funds to furnish immediate aid and relief. The state treasurer shall be the custodian of the fund and the fund shall be administered by the department of health and senior services. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, moneys in the fund shall not lapse to the credit of general revenue at the end of the biennium. All interest earned on the fund shall be deposited in and credited to the fund.
192.900. The "Missouri Public Health Services Fund" is hereby created. All moneys deposited in the Missouri public health services fund, subject to appropriation, shall be used for public health purposes, including the contracting for the accomplishment of such purposes by local health departments. Any interest earned on the fund shall accrue to the fund.
701.049. 1. All moneys collected by the department pursuant to sections 701.025 to 701.059, except any administrative penalties, shall be deposited in the state treasury to be credited to the Missouri public health services fund, which is created in section 192.900, RSMo, and used for the specific purposes authorized in sections 701.025 to 701.059, except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, including contracting with county governments and local health departments to accomplish the purposes of sections 701.025 to 701.059. [Section 33.080, RSMo, notwithstanding, any balance in the fund exceeding five hundred thousand dollars shall revert to general revenue. All interest earned on the fund shall accrue to the fund.]
2. The director may, upon appropriations from the general assembly, use money from the Missouri public health services fund for development of innovative sewage systems and pilot programs.