43-13-143 - Medical Care Fund. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 43-13-143. Medical Care Fund.
 

There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the "Medical Care Fund," which shall be comprised of monies transferred by public or private health care providers, governing bodies of counties, municipalities, public or community hospitals and other political subdivisions of the state, individuals, corporations, associations and any other entities for the purpose of providing health care services. Any transfer made to the fund shall be paid to the State Treasurer for deposit into the fund, and all such transfers shall be considered as unconditional transfers to the fund. The monies in the Medical Care Fund shall be expended only for health care services, and may be expended only upon appropriation of the Legislature. All transfers of monies to the Division of Medicaid by health care providers and by governing bodies of counties, municipalities, public or community hospitals and other political subdivisions of the state shall be deposited into the fund. Unexpended monies remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund, and any interest earned on monies in the fund shall be deposited to the credit of the fund. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1991, ch. 612, § 2; Laws, 1992, ch. 487, § 5, eff from and after passage (approved May 8, 1992).