Effective - 28 Aug 2002
660.136. Utilicare stabilization fund created — used for utilicare program. — 1. The "Utilicare Stabilization Fund" is hereby created in the state treasury to support the provisions of sections 660.100 to 660.136. Funds for the utilicare program may come from state, federal or other sources including funds received by this state from the federal government under the provisions of the Community Opportunities Accountability and Training and Educational Services Act of 1998 (Title III, Section 301-309, Public Law 93.568 ), together with any interest or other earnings on the principal of this fund. Except as provided in subsection 3, moneys in the utilicare stabilization fund shall be used for the purposes established in the Federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program and sections 660.100 to 660.136.
2. The provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary notwithstanding, money in this fund shall not be transferred and placed to the credit of general revenue until the amount in the fund at the end of the biennium exceeds two times the amount of the appropriation from the fund for the preceding fiscal year. The amount, if any, in the fund, which shall lapse, is that amount in the fund which exceeds the appropriate multiple of the appropriations from the fund for the preceding fiscal year. Moneys in the utilicare fund not needed currently for the purposes designated in sections 660.100 to 660.136 may be invested by the state treasurer in the manner that other moneys of the state are authorized by law to be invested. All interest, income and returns from moneys of the utilicare stabilization fund shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the utilicare stabilization fund.
3. When the utilicare stabilization fund receives a transfer pursuant to section 470.270, the moneys from that transfer shall be held in the fund for one full year after the date of transfer and shall be used to pay for heating or cooling assistance as provided in sections 660.100 to 660.136. Any moneys remaining at the end of that year shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund of the state.
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(L. 1997 S.B. 263, A.L. 2002 S.B. 810)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Utilicare stabilization fund, refund of natural gas or electric rates to be transferred to fund, 470.270
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XL - Additional Executive Departments
Chapter 660 - Department of Social Services
Section 660.015 - Salary — expenses of the department.
Section 660.017 - Rules, procedure.
Section 660.025 - Grants from department of social services, purposes — rulemaking procedure.
Section 660.026 - Funding for federally qualified health centers, uses — report to the director.
Section 660.099 - General assembly may make additional appropriations, purposes.
Section 660.100 - Financial assistance for heating — definitions.
Section 660.105 - Eligibility for assistance — income defined.
Section 660.115 - Utilicare payment, procedure.
Section 660.125 - False claims.
Section 660.130 - Rules, regulations, forms — rule requirements.
Section 660.135 - Expenditures — utilicare stabilization fund.
Section 660.136 - Utilicare stabilization fund created — used for utilicare program.
Section 660.137 - Federal low income telephone assistance matching funds, compliance to obtain.
Section 660.138 - Definitions.
Section 660.141 - Economy rates, how established, applications — limited to one residence.
Section 660.147 - Eligible persons, department's powers and duties.
Section 660.150 - Plan to be established.
Section 660.155 - Grants may be made, to whom.
Section 660.160 - Department may define emergency situations.
Section 660.165 - Limitation on periods of emergency — when assistance to be granted.
Section 660.170 - Eligibility for assistance.
Section 660.175 - Department's duties — no reduction in other benefits.
Section 660.180 - Director to make regulations.
Section 660.185 - Limitation on state participation — expiration of program.
Section 660.190 - Limitation on expenditures.
Section 660.195 - Plan to terminate, when.
Section 660.200 - Rules, procedure.
Section 660.325 - Definitions.
Section 660.335 - Requests by department for information, form — content.
Section 660.340 - Cost of record search.
Section 660.345 - Immunity from civil liability for providing requested information.
Section 660.350 - Disclosure of information, penalty.
Section 660.360 - Welfare fraud telephone hot line, attorney general, duties.
Section 660.370 - Definitions.
Section 660.372 - Board of directors — number — qualifications — powers — duties.
Section 660.374 - Funding — agency's share of funds, how determined — use of state revenue.
Section 660.376 - Rules and regulations — department of social services, authority.
Section 660.512 - Rulemaking under authority of chapter 210.
Section 660.525 - Treatment for child sexual abuse victims provided by division, when.
Section 660.526 - Child sexual abuse cases, annual training required by children's division.
Section 660.625 - Advocate to maintain confidentiality, exception.
Section 660.650 - Definitions.
Section 660.653 - Policy council or committee, members' qualifications, duties.
Section 660.750 - Liaisons for faith-based organizations to be designated, duties.