HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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General Fund Appropriation.........

Special Fund Appropriation.........

Federal Fund Appropriation.........

Funds are appropriated in the
amount $370,522 in the Office on
Aging (23.01.07) for Public
Assistance for Adults and
Emergency                             Assistance.

Authorization is hereby granted
to transfer and use these funds
as special receipts for operating
expenses under this program.

Provided that the funds included
herein for grant increases are
approved as necessary for energy
assistance because it has been
clearly demonstrated that the
recent increase in home heating
costs of low income residents of
Maryland have risen much more
quickly than their other costs.
These funds appropriated herein
may only be used to pay such
additional amounts for the home

heating needs of public

assistance recipients, calculated
on a seasonal basis, to be paid
in the most administratively
efficient manner in accord with
all applicable federal and state
laws and regulations.

All appropriations provided for
public assistance payments are to
be used only for the purposes
herein appropriated and there
shall be no budgetary transfer by
budget amendment or otherwise
from this program to any other
program without the approval of
the Joint Budget and Audit

Committee. Proposed budget

amendments shall be reported to
the Joint Budget and Audit

Committee in advance of

submitting each amendment to the
Governor for his approval. Any

budgetary transfer between

categories of assistance within
the assistance payments program
in excess of 5% must receive
prior approval of the General
Assembly in accordance with
Article 41, Section 245(c) of the

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