Purpose
A special fund in the Treasury outside of General Revenue composed of money transferred at the direction of the Legislature, gifts, grants, interest earned and amounts recovered under heath professional contracts and amounts recovered under promissory notes from the rural veterinarian loan repayment program. Used only for the rural communities health care investment program to provide stipends, loan reimbursements, the rural veterinarian loan repayment program and to pay expenses of managing the fund. The 77h Legislature appropriated $2.5 million from tobacco settlement proceeds to establish the corpus of the fund.
Notes
Legal cite changed from TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE ANN. § 106.308 by H.B. 1877, 78th Leg., R.S.
Name changed by H.B. 1918, 81st Leg., R.S.,
Expanded source and use of funds by H.B. 1684, 81st Leg., R.S.
Agency changed by S.B. 1, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., eff. 9-28-11.