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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA c. 260-B is enacted to read:

 
CHAPTER 260-B

 
PREVENTION OF OBESITY

 
§1515.__Maine Obesity Prevention Fund

 
1.__Fund established.__The Maine Obesity Prevention Fund,
referred to in this chapter as "the fund," is established as an
Other Special Revenue fund account within the Department of
Administrative and Financial Services for the purposes specified
in this chapter.

 
2.__Sources of fund.__The State Controller shall credit to the
fund:

 
A.__All money allocated to the fund by the Legislature
derived from sources determined by the Legislature to be
contributing causes of obesity;

 
B.__Money from any other source, whether public or private,
designated for deposit into or credited to the fund, other
than the Fund for a Healthy Maine; and

 
C.__Interest earned or other investment income on balances
in the fund.

 
3.__Unencumbered balances.__Any unencumbered balance remaining
at the end of any fiscal year lapses back to the fund and may not
be made available for expenditure without specific legislative
approval.

 
4.__Departmental indirect cost allocation plans.__Any revenue
transfer from a fund account to another account pursuant to an
approved Department of Administrative and Financial Services
indirect cost allocation plan is an authorized use of revenue
credited to the fund.__The State Budget Officer shall reduce
allotment for the amount of any transfer made from a fund account
for the purpose authorized in this subsection.

 
5.__Restrictions.__This section does not require the provision
of services for the purposes specified in subsection 7.__
Allocations from the fund must be used to supplement, not
supplant, appropriations from the General Fund or from the Fund
for a Healthy Maine.


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