(a) The Commissioner of the Alabama Medicaid Agency shall notify the Governor when he or she foresees that the Alabama Medicaid Agency will exhaust its State General Fund appropriation within 180 days or less due to any of the reasons stated in Section 4(a). The notification must include a detailed explanation of why the State General Fund appropriation will be exhausted, the anticipated amount of funds necessary to continue the operation of the Medicaid program until the next fiscal year, and the effect on the Medicaid program if the Alabama Medicaid Agency is unable to utilize funds from the Medicaid Emergency Reserve Fund.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 22-6-254

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) The Commissioner of the Alabama Medicaid Agency shall send the same notification to the Chairman of the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee-General Fund, and the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee-General Fund, the State Finance Director, and the Legislative Fiscal Officer.
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