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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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(c) The Governor may provide an appropriation in the budget bill to the Fund
for a specific or general purpose or purposes.
(d) [After notice to and approval by the Legislative Policy Committee, the]
THE Governor may transfer funds by budget amendment from the Economic
Development Opportunities Program Fund to the expenditure account of the
appropriate executive agency IN THE FOLLOWING CIRCUMSTANCES:
(1) FOR PROJECTS IN WHICH FUNDING FROM THE FUND EXCEEDS
$2,500,000, THE GOVERNOR MUST PROVIDE NOTICE TO, AND OBTAIN APPROVAL
FROM, THE LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE; AND
(2) FOR PROJECTS IN WHICH FUNDING FROM THE FUND DOES NOT
EXCEED $2,500,000, THE GOVERNOR MUST PROVIDE NOTICE TO, AND OBTAIN
APPROVAL FROM, THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE POLICY
COMMITTEE.
(e) (1) The Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund which is not subject to §
7-302 of this subtitle.
(2) The Treasurer shall separately hold, and the Comptroller shall
account for, the Fund.
(3) The Fund shall be invested and reinvested in the same manner as
other State funds.
(4) Except as provided in paragraph (5) of this subsection, any
investment earnings shall be subject to § 7-311(d) of this subtitle.
(5) Any investment earnings on moneys transferred from the Fund to a
second continuing, nonlapsing fund may be retained to the credit of the second fund.
(f) (1) Moneys appropriated or credited to the Fund do not revert to the
Revenue Stabilization Fund.
(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, repayments of
principal or interest on any loan from the Fund shall be retained to the credit of the
Fund.
(3) Repayments of principal or interest on any loan made from moneys
transferred from the Fund to a second continuing, nonlapsing fund may be retained to
the credit of the second fund.
(g) (1) The Department of Business and Economic Development shall report
to the Governor and, subject to § 2-1246 of the State Government Article, to the
General Assembly before January 1 of each year:
(i) the financial status of the program and a summary of its
operations for the preceding fiscal year;
(ii) for the previous 3 fiscal years, the status of Fund disbursements
for economic development projects approved by the Legislative Policy Committee
under this section; and
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