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SB 99 revise certain provisions of the Medicaid contingency fund due ...
State of South Dakota  
NINETIETH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2015  

182W0555   SENATE BILL   NO.  99  

Introduced by:    Senator Peters and Representative Cronin
 

        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to revise certain provisions of the Medicaid contingency fund due to federal legislation, to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That section 1 of chapter 38 of the 2014 Session Laws be amended to read as follows:
    Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of sixteen million dollars ($16,000,000), seven million dollars ($7,000,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, and seventeen million four hundred sixteen thousand eight hundred seventy-six dollars ($17,416,876) of federal fund expenditure authority, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Bureau of Finance and Management for the purpose of providing contingency funds to be made available in accordance with the provisions in §§ 4-8A-9, 4-8A-10, and 4-8A-11. The contingency funds shall be used to fund unanticipated costs related to needs in existing programs in accordance with the provisions of Title XIX and Title XXI of the federal Social Security Act.
    Section 2. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of nine million dollars ($9,000,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Department of Social Services.
    Section 3. The secretary of the Department of Social Services shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized by this Act.
    Section 4. Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated shall revert in accordance with the procedures prescribed in chapter 4-8.
    Section 5. Whereas, this Act is necessary for the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.