After June 30, 1993, any hospital authority, county, municipality, or other state or local public or governmental entity is authorized to transfer moneys to the trust fund. Transfer of funds under the control of a hospital authority, county, municipality, or other state or local public or governmental entity shall be a valid public purpose for which those funds may be expended. The department is authorized to transfer to the trust fund moneys paid to the state by a health care facility as a monetary penalty for the violation of an agreement to provide a specified amount of clinical health services to indigent patients pursuant to a certificate of need held by such facility. Such transfers shall be irrevocable and shall be used only for the purposes contained in Code Section 31-8-154.
History. Code 1981, § 31-8-153.1 , enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 1240, § 3.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients
Article 6 - Indigent Care Trust Fund
§ 31-8-150. Constitutional Authority for Passage of Article
§ 31-8-152. Creation of Indigent Care Trust Fund
§ 31-8-153. Contributions to Trust Fund
§ 31-8-153.1. Irrevocable Transfer of Funds to Trust Fund; Provision for Indigent Patients
§ 31-8-153.2. Revenues Raised From Specified Sources
§ 31-8-153.3. No Lapse of Contributions to the General Fund
§ 31-8-154. Authorized Expenditure of Contributed Funds
§ 31-8-155. Promulgation of Rules for Funding Expansions of Eligibility and Indigent Care Programs
§ 31-8-156. Appropriation of State Funds by General Assembly
§ 31-8-157. Refunding Contributed Funds; Penalties Not Refunded
§ 31-8-158. Refunding Funds Not Appropriated or Determined Void or Ineligible
§ 31-8-159. Reporting Requirements
§ 31-8-160. Applicability of Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49