Ch. 429

2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

provide funds for burial assistance
payments.

General Fund Appropriation, provided that
it is the intent of the General Assembly
that the department spend federal
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF) funds in accordance with the
budget detail presented to the General
Assembly. If federal legislation
reauthorizing the TANF program or
extending it with changes, is signed into
law, the department shall provide the
budget committees with a report on the
provisions of the federal law, their
implications in Maryland, and the
opportunities and challenges presented by
the federal law. The report shall be due to
the committees within 30 days of final
passage of the federal law reauthorizing
TANF or extending it with changes.
Should the department wish for any
reason to make a regulatory, policy,
procedural, or budgetary change that
transfers among programs, increases, or
decreases TANF funds of $1,000,000 or
more, it shall notify the budget
committees of its intent, and the
committees shall have 30 days to review
and consider the proposed change before
it becomes effective.....................................

P00A01.01 Executive Direction

To become available immediately upon
passage of this budget to supplement the
appropriation for fiscal year 2004 to
provide funds to offset long—standing
federal fund shortfalls from prior years in
the department.

399,538

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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

2004 Deficiency Appropriation

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING, AND REGULATION