Alaska Statutes
Article 1. Mental Health Trust.
Sec. 37.14.005. Responsibilities of the legislature.

(a) The legislature shall annually pass and transmit to the governor a bill making appropriations of money for the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program.
(b) The legislature shall make appropriations for the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program in a separate appropriation bill limited to appropriations for the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program.
(c) If the appropriations in the bill passed by the legislature differ from those proposed by the authority, the bill must be accompanied by a report explaining the reasons for the differences between the appropriations in the bill and the authority's recommendations for expenditures from the general fund for the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program.

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