Chief Patron: Van Landingham
Child, Maternal and Primary Care Fund

Item 545 #3h

Language
Page 368, after line 14, insert:
"Payment to the Child, Maternal, and Primary Care Fund (74503)..........................  $12,889,328          $15,807,948".
Page 368, line 15, strike "77,335,967" and insert "90,225,295".
Page 368, line 15, strike "94,847,905" and insert "110,657,905".
Page 368, line 16, strike "and".
Page 368, line 17, after "14", insert ", and Title 32.1, Chapter 15,".
Page 368, after line 36, insert:
"C. The State Comptroller shall deposit 10 percent of the Commonwealth's Allocation pursuant to the Master Settlement Agreement with tobacco product manufacturers to the Child, Maternal and Primary Care Fund pursuant to § 32.1-266, Code of Virginia.  There is hereby appropriated a sum sufficient estimated at $12,889,328 the first year and $15,807,984 the second year from available balances in the Fund for the purposes set forth in § 32.1-366, Code of Virginia."
Page 368, line 37, strike "C." and insert "D.".
Page 368, line 42, strike "D." and insert "E."

Explanation
(This amendment allocates 10 percent of the moneys received each year by the Commonwealth from the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, to the Child, Maternal and Primary Care Fund. The fund would support, but not supplant, funding for programs for children, as well as programs for maternal health care across the Commonwealth. Funding would also support a statewide network of primary care clinics for the most at-risk Virginians. The introduced budget assumes 40 percent of the tobacco settlement revenues would be available from the general fund for transportation. A companion amendment eliminates language which would allow for the securitization of the tobacco settlement revenues in FY 2002.)