Authority to receive and distribute federal money; Health Facilities Assistance Fund; deposits, use and controls.
1. The State Department is hereby authorized to receive federal funds in behalf of, and transmit them to, applicants.
2. There is hereby established a nonreverting trust fund designated as the Health Facilities Assistance Fund. Money received from the Federal Government for a construction project approved by the federal agency shall be transmitted to the State Treasurer to be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Health Facilities Assistance Fund, and shall be used solely for payments due applicants for work performed, purchases made or other approved expenditures in carrying out approved projects or plans, except that any moneys in such Fund which become available under the Federal Act and regulations for expenditure in administering an approved state plan may be expended for that purpose.
3. The State Department shall establish and maintain such accounts and fiscal controls of moneys deposited in and disbursed from the Health Facilities Assistance Fund as may be required by the Federal Act and regulations promulgated thereunder.
Last modified: February 26, 2006