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Terms Used In Maryland Code, STATE FINANCE AND PROCUREMENT 7-307

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) Unless the State budget expressly provides otherwise, whenever a new or substantially renovated facility does not begin operation on the date that was used to determine the amount of the appropriation to the facility in the State budget, the part of the appropriation for operating expenses that is not needed to provide services to the same clients, students, patients, or inmates shall revert to the General Fund or to an appropriate special fund and may not be spent for any other purpose or transferred by a budget amendment.

(b) If a facility under this section begins to operate after the date on which the appropriation was based but in the same fiscal year, the Department of Budget and Management shall determine, on a pro rata basis, the amount of the appropriation for operating expenses that shall revert to the General Fund.