988                                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 11

(A)  REVERSION GENERALLY REQUIRED.

UNLESS THE STATE BUDGET EXPRESSLY PROVIDES OTHERWISE,
WHENEVER A NEW OR SUBSTANTIALLY RENOVATED FACILITY DOES NOT BEGIN
OPERATION ON THE DATE THAT WAS USED TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF
THE APPROPRIATION TO THE FACILITY IN THE STATE BUDGET, THE PART
OF THE APPROPRIATION FOR OPERATING EXPENSES THAT IS NOT NEEDED TO
PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE SAME CLIENTS, STUDENTS, PATIENTS, OR
INMATES SHALL REVERT TO THE GENERAL FUND OR TO AN APPROPRIATE
SPECIAL FUND AND MAY NOT BE SPENT FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE OR
TRANSFERRED BY A BUDGET AMENDMENT.

(B)  REVERSION ON A PRO RATA BASIS.

IF A FACILITY UNDER THIS SECTION BEGINS TO OPERATE AFTER
THE DATE ON WHICH THE APPROPRIATION WAS BASED BUT IN THE SAME
FISCAL YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND FISCAL PLANNING SHALL
DETERMINE, ON A PRO RATA BASIS, THE AMOUNT OF THE APPROPRIATION
FOR OPERATING EXPENSES THAT SHALL REVERT TO THE GENERAL FUND.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived
without substantive change from former Art. 15A, § 2A.

In subsection (a)(1) of this section, the term
"General Fund" is substituted for the former reference
to the "general treasury", to conform to references
elsewhere in this article.

The Commission to Revise the Annotated Code notes, for
the consideration of the General Assembly, that the
former law seemed, on its face, to provide for the
reversion of "the operating funds appropriated for the
new facility". However, in order to give meaning to
the reference, in former Art. 15A, § 2A(a), to funds
appropriated to "a new or substantially renovated
facility", the revised language does not limit the
reversion requirement for operating funds to a new
facility. The revision provides for the reversion of
the operating funds that are appropriated for a new or
substantially renovated facility.

7-308. NOTICE OF REVERSIONS.

THE SECRETARY OF BUDGET AND FISCAL PLANNING SHALL GIVE EACH
MEMBER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY NOTICE OF:

(1)  THE TOTAL REVERSIONS AT THE END OF EACH FISCAL
YEAR; AND

(2)  ANY REVISION OF AN ESTIMATED REVERSION FROM AN
APPROPRIATION IN THE STATE BUDGET FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived
without substantive change from former Art. 15A, § 26.