§ 4-12-8.5-3 — Regional health care construction account; established

Indiana § 4-12-8.5-3

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 12: APPROPRIATIONS MANAGEMENT
• Ch. 8.5: Regional Health Care Construction Account

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(a) The regional health care construction
account is established for the purpose of providing funding for state
psychiatric hospitals and developmental centers, regional health
centers, or other health facilities designed to provide crisis treatment,
rehabilitation, or intervention for adults or children with mental illness,
developmental disabilities, addictions, or other medical or
rehabilitative needs. The account consists of:
(1) amounts, if any, that any statute requires to be distributed to
the account from the Indiana tobacco master settlement agreement
fund;
(2) appropriations to the account from other sources; and
(3) grants, gifts, and donations intended for deposit in the
account.
(b) The budget agency shall administer the account. Money in the
account at the end of a state fiscal year does not revert to the state
general fund but remains available for expenditure.
(c) Money in the account may be used for:
(1) the construction, equipping, renovation, demolition,
refurbishing, or alteration of existing or new state hospitals,
regional health centers, or other health facilities; or
(2) lease rentals to the Indiana finance authority under IC 4-13.5
or other public or private providers of such facilities.
(d) Money in the account shall be used to pay any outstanding lease
rentals before making any other payments from the account.
(e) Money in the account is annually appropriated for the purposes
described in this chapter.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.291-2001, SEC.72. Amended by P.L.224-2003, SEC.118; P.L.235-2005, SEC.53.