As Amended
SEC. 43-13-111. Budgets of state health agencies.
Annually, at such time as the division may require, every state health agency, as defined in section 43-13-105, shall submit to the division a detailed budget of all medical assistance programs rendered by the agency, a report covering funds available for the support of each program administered by it that can be matched with federal funds under Titles V, XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act, a detailed description of each such program, and other data as may be requested by the division. The director is authorized and directed to coordinate the administration of all public health programs administered under Titles V, XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act and to adopt such procedures and regulations, with the approval of the governor, that will assure a more efficient coordination of such services.
The legislative budget office shall not approve the annual fiscal budget request of any state health agency for medical assistance to be rendered under this article until it receives the budget recommendations of the division of medicaid. The division of medicaid shall file its recommendation within thirty (30) days after the due date for the filing of such budget requests, and if such recommendations are not timely filed, the foregoing restrictions shall not apply.
Every state health agency as defined in section 43-13-105 shall present to the division of medicaid a quarterly estimate of expenditures to be made for medical assistance rendered under this article for such period and the state fiscal management board shall not approve such quarterly estimate except upon a finding and recommendation by the division of medicaid that the requested expenditures will be reimbursable under the medical assistance plan and program adopted by the division pursuant to the provisions of this article.
Quarterly estimates referred to in the foregoing paragraph shall be filed by the division of medicaid with the state fiscal management board at least thirty (30) days prior to the quarter in which such expenditures are to be made. Quarterly estimate, for purposes of this section, shall be such period as the legislature shall hereafter designate as a fiscal reporting period to be followed by the state fiscal management board in making fiscal allocations.
The division shall recommend to the legislature the combining of state appropriated funds, special funds and federal funds for health services that can be matched under the provisions of Titles V, XVIII, and XIX of the Social Security Act. However, in no way shall the provisions of this article be interpreted as authorizing a reduction in the overall range, effectiveness, and efficiency of services now encompassed under existing health programs.
The division shall organize its programs and budgets so as to secure federal funding on an exclusive or matching basis to the maximum extent possible.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 7290-36; Laws, 1969, Ex Sess, ch. 37, Sec. 6; 1984, ch. 488, Sec. 44, eff from and after July 1, 1984.