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as General Fund undedicated revenue, no later than June 30, 2005,
$1,276,356 from the Department of Health and Human Services,
Medical Care Services General Fund account representing legal
settlements from pharmaceutical companies.

 
Sec. H-4. Audit settlement. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the State Controller is authorized to recognize as General
Fund undedicated revenue, no later than June 30, 2005, $235,890
from the Department of Health and Human Services, BDS Department
Operations General Fund account representing the final settlement
of fiscal year 2001-02 payments from an institute for mental
disease.

 
PART I

 
Sec. I-1. PL 2003, c. 51, Pt. H, §7, as amended by PL 2003, c. 513, Part
I, §1, is further amended to read:

 
*Sec. H-7. Intergovernmental transfer. The Commissioner of
Administrative and Financial Services shall annually establish
the amount that must be transferred from the City of Portland as
an intergovernmental transfer. The amounts that must be
transferred to the State as undedicated General Fund revenue from
the City of Portland must be $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2002-03
and must be at least $3,254,528 in fiscal year 2003-04 and at
least $2,544,709 in fiscal year 2004-05.

 
PART J

 
Sec. J-1. 35-A MRSA §116, sub-§8, śC-1, as amended by PL 2003, c. 272,
§2, is further amended to read:

 
C-1. Except as specified in this subsection, funds that are
not expended at the end of a fiscal year do not lapse but
must be carried forward to be expended for the purposes
specified in this section in succeeding fiscal years; but,
with the exception of funds carried forward from fiscal year
2002-03 2004-05 and fiscal year 2003-04 2005-06 for use in
the following fiscal year, unexpended funds in excess of 10%
of the total annual assessment authorized in this section
must, at the option of the Public Advocate, either be
presented to the Legislature in accordance with paragraph A
for reallocation and expenditure or used to reduce the
utility assessment in the following fiscal year. In the
case of funds carried forward from fiscal year 2002-03 2004-
05 and fiscal year 2003-04 2005-06 for use in the following
fiscal year, 100% of these funds may be expended for the
purposes specified in this section.


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