2005 West Virginia Code - §49-7-31. — Special account.

§49-7-31. Special account.
(a) There is hereby established a special account in the department of health and human resources in the state treasury to be known as the "Child Assessment and In-state Placement Fund." Any funds provided for the purposes of this article by line-item appropriation of the Legislature in any fiscal year shall be deposited in the special account and used to carry out the purposes of this article. Balances remaining in the special account at the end of the fiscal year shall not expire or revert to the general revenue: Provided, That balances remaining in the account may be redesignated for other purposes by appropriation of the Legislature. The secretary of the department of health and human resources may order the transfer of moneys in the special account to other accounts within the department of health and human resources, to the limited extent that children who are the subject of this article are financially and medically eligible for other programs or services of the division of health and human resources, including programs funded, in whole or in part, by federal funds.
(b) Any moneys saved by the department of health and human resources by virtue of returning children from out-of-state placements after implementing the structured risk assessment and classification system provided for in section four, article nine of this chapter shall be deposited in the child assessment and in-state placement fund and used solely for the purpose of developing and implementing programs that will reduce the numbersof children in long-term placements outside of their homes.