CHAPTER 151 SENATE BILL No. 362 (Amends Chapter 127) An  Act relating to the trauma fund; amending section 8 of 1999 Substitute for Senate Bill
No. 106 and repealing the existing section. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

      Section  1. Section 8 of 1999 Substitute for Senate Bill No. 106 is
hereby amended to read as follows: (a) There is hereby established in the
state treasury the trauma fund which shall be administered by the sec-
retary of health and environment. All moneys received from fees collected
under K.S.A. 12-4214 12-4117 and 28-172a, and amendments thereto,
for the purpose of financing the activities and expenses of the secretary
in administration of sections 1 to 8, inclusive, and amendments thereto,
regional trauma councils, and the trauma registry, shall be deposited in
the state treasury and credited to the trauma fund. All expenditures from
the trauma fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon
warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouch-
ers approved by the secretary or by a person or persons designated by
such secretary.

      (b) On or before the 10th of each month, the director of accounts
and reports shall transfer from the state general fund to the trauma fund
established in subsection (a) interest earnings based on:

      (1) The average daily balance of money in the trauma fund for the
preceding month; and

      (2) the net earnings rate of the pooled money investment portfolio
for the preceding month.

      Sec.  2. Section 8 of 1999 Substitute for Senate Bill No. 106 is hereby
repealed.

      Sec.  3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.

Approved May 12, 1999.
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