ARTICLE 2

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS

     SECTION 1. Chapter 23-17.14 of the General Laws entitled “The Hospital Conversions

Act” is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

     23-17.14-36. Hospital conversion monitoring account

     There is hereby established within the department of health, a restricted receipt account

entitled “Hospital Conversion Monitoring.” This account shall be used for the sole purpose to fund

monitoring activities associated with hospital conversions pursuant to § 23-17.14-28(d) (1), (2),

(3), and (4). Funds held in non-state escrow, whether currently existing or prospective, through

agreement between the department of health and the conversion acquiror may be deposited into the

restricted receipt account and disbursed, as necessary, to conduct the monitoring activities

associated with § 23-17.14-28(d) (1), (2), (3), and (4).

     SECTION 2. Section 35-4-27 of the General Laws in Chapter 35-4 entitled “State Funds”

is hereby amended to read as follows:

     35-4-27. Indirect cost recoveries on restricted receipt accounts.

     Indirect cost recoveries of ten percent (10%) of cash receipts shall be transferred from all

restricted-receipt accounts, to be recorded as general revenues in the general fund. However, there

shall be no transfer from cash receipts with restrictions received exclusively: (1) From contributions

from nonprofit charitable organizations; (2) From the assessment of indirect cost-recovery rates on

federal grant funds; or (3) Through transfers from state agencies to the department of administration

for the payment of debt service. These indirect cost recoveries shall be applied to all accounts,

unless prohibited by federal law or regulation, court order, or court settlement. The following

restricted receipt accounts shall not be subject to the provisions of this section:

     Executive Office of Health and Human Services

     Organ Transplant Fund

     HIV Care Grant Drug Rebates

     Health System Transformation Project

     Adult Use Marijuana Program Licensing

     Rhode Island Statewide Opioid Abatement Account

     HCBS Support- ARPA

     HCBS Admin Support- ARPA

     Department of Human Services

     Veterans' home — Restricted account

     Veterans' home — Resident benefits

     Pharmaceutical Rebates Account

     Demand Side Management Grants

     Veteran's Cemetery Memorial Fund

     Donations — New Veterans' Home Construction

     Department of Health

     Pandemic medications and equipment account

     Miscellaneous Donations/Grants from Non-Profits

     State Loan Repayment Match

     Healthcare Information Technology

     Adult Use Marijuana Program

     Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals

     Eleanor Slater non-Medicaid third-party payor account

     Hospital Medicare Part D Receipts

     RICLAS Group Home Operations

     Adult Use Marijuana Program

     Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

     Emergency and public communication access account

     Department of Environmental Management

     National heritage revolving fund

     Environmental response fund II

     Underground storage tanks registration fees

     De Coppet Estate Fund

     Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission

     Historic preservation revolving loan fund

     Historic Preservation loan fund — Interest revenue

     Department of Public Safety

     E-911 Uniform Emergency Telephone System

     Forfeited property — Retained

     Forfeitures — Federal

     Forfeited property — Gambling

     Donation — Polygraph and Law Enforcement Training

     Rhode Island State Firefighter's League Training Account

     Fire Academy Training Fees Account

     Adult Use Marijuana Program

     Attorney General

     Forfeiture of property

     Federal forfeitures

     Attorney General multi-state account

     Forfeited property — Gambling

     Automatic Expungement

     Department of Administration

     OER Reconciliation Funding

     Health Insurance Market Integrity Fund

     RI Health Benefits Exchange

     Information Technology Investment Fund

     Restore and replacement — Insurance coverage

     Convention Center Authority rental payments

     Investment Receipts — TANS

     OPEB System Restricted Receipt Account

     Car Rental Tax/Surcharge-Warwick Share

     Grants Management Administration

     Executive Office of Commerce

     Housing Resources Commission Restricted Account

     Housing Production Fund

     Department of Revenue

     DMV Modernization Project

     Jobs Tax Credit Redemption Fund

     Adult Use Marijuana Program

     Legislature

     Audit of federal assisted programs

     Department of Children, Youth and Families

     Children's Trust Accounts — SSI

     Military Staff

     RI Military Family Relief Fund

     RI National Guard Counterdrug Program

     Treasury

     Admin. Expenses — State Retirement System

     Retirement — Treasury Investment Options

     Defined Contribution — Administration - RR

     Violent Crimes Compensation — Refunds

     Treasury Research Fellowship

     Business Regulation

     Banking Division Reimbursement Account

     Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner Reimbursement Account

     Securities Division Reimbursement Account

     Commercial Licensing and Racing and Athletics Division Reimbursement Account

     Insurance Division Reimbursement Account

     Historic Preservation Tax Credit Account

     Adult Use Marijuana Program

     Judiciary

     Arbitration Fund Restricted Receipt Account

     Third-Party Grants

     RI Judiciary Technology Surcharge Account

     Automatic Expungement

     Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

     Statewide Student Transportation Services Account

     School for the Deaf Fee-for-Service Account

     School for the Deaf — School Breakfast and Lunch Program

     Davies Career and Technical School Local Education Aid Account

     Davies — National School Breakfast & Lunch Program

     School Construction Services

     Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner

     Higher Education and Industry Center

     Department of Labor and Training

     Job Development Fund

     Rhode Island Council on the Arts

     Governors' Portrait Donation Fund

     Statewide records management system account

     SECTION 3. Section 39-1-42 of the General Laws in Chapter 39-1 entitled “Public

Utilities Commission” is hereby amended to read as follows:

     39-1-42. Access to telephone information services for persons with disabilities.

     (a) The public utilities commission shall establish, administer, and promote an information

accessibility service that includes:

     (1) A statewide telephone relay service and, through the competitive bidding process,

contract for the administration and operation of such a relay system for utilization of the

telecommunications network by deaf, hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired persons;

     (2) The adaptive telephone equipment loan program capable of servicing the needs of

persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, severely speech impaired, or those with neuromuscular

impairments for use with a single-party telephone line, or wireless telephone, to any subscriber who

is certified as deaf, hard of hearing, severely speech impaired, or with neuromuscular impairments

by a licensed physician, audiologist, speech pathologist, or a qualified state agency, pursuant to

chapter 23 of this title; and

     (3) A telephone access to the text of newspaper programs to residents who are blind, deaf

or blind, visually impaired, or reading impaired with a single-party telephone line.

     (b) The commission shall establish, by rule or regulation, an appropriate funding

mechanism to recover the costs of providing this service from each residence and business

telephone access line or trunk in the state, including PBX trunks and centrex equivalent trunks and

each service line or trunk, and upon each user interface number or extension number or similarly

identifiable line, trunk, or path to or from a digital network. Notwithstanding the foregoing, there

shall not be any additional funding mechanism used to charge each residence and business

telephone access line or trunk in the state, including PBX trunks and centrex equivalent trunks and

each service line or trunk, or upon each user interface number or extension number or similarly

identifiable line, trunk, or path to or from a digital network, to recover the costs of providing the

services outlined in subsection (a)(1), (2) or (3) above.

     (c) The commission, with the assistance of the state commission on the deaf and hard of

hearing, shall also develop the appropriate rules, regulations, and service standards necessary to

implement the provisions of subsection (a)(1). At a minimum, however, the commission shall

require, under the terms of the contract, that the relay service provider:

     (1) Offer its relay services seven (7) days a week, twenty-four (24) hours a day, including

holidays;

     (2) Hire only qualified salaried operators with deaf language skills; and

     (3) Maintain the confidentiality of all communications.

     (d) The commission shall collect from the telecommunications service providers the

amounts of the surcharge collected from their subscribers and remit to the department of human

services an additional ten thousand dollars ($10,000) annually commencing in fiscal year 2005 for

the adaptive telephone equipment loan program and forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to the

department of human services for the establishment of a new telephone access to the text of

newspaper programs. In addition, eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) one hundred thousand dollars

($100,000) shall annually be remitted to the Rhode Island commission on the deaf and hard of

hearing for an emergency and public communication access program, pursuant to § 23-1.8-4. The

surcharge referenced hereunder shall be generated from existing funding mechanisms and shall not

be generated as a result of any new funding mechanisms charged to each residence and business

telephone access line or trunk in the state, including PBX trunks and centrex equivalent trunks and

each service line or trunk, or upon each user interface number or extension number or similarly

identifiable line, trunk, or path to or from a digital network.

     SECTION 4. Section 42-7.2-10 of the General Laws in Chapter 42-7.2 entitled “Office of

Health and Human Services” is hereby amended to read as follows:

     42-7.2-10. Appropriations and disbursements.

     (a) The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sums as it may deem necessary

for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter. The state controller is hereby

authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of such

sum or sums, or so much thereof as may from time to time be required, upon receipt by him or her

of proper vouchers approved by the secretary of the executive office of health and human services,

or his or her designee.

     (b) For the purpose of recording federal financial participation associated with qualifying

healthcare workforce development activities at the state's public institutions of higher education,

and pursuant to the Rhode Island designated state health programs (DSHP), as approved by the

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMC) October 20, 2016, in the 11-W-00242/1

amendment to Rhode Island's section 1115 Demonstration Waiver, there is hereby established a

restricted-receipt account entitled "Health System Transformation Project" in the general fund of

the state and included in the budget of the office of health and human services.

     (c) There are hereby created within the general fund of the state and housed within the

budget of the office of health and human services two restricted receipt accounts, respectively

entitled “HCBS Support- ARPA” and HCBS Admin Support- ARPA”. Amounts deposited into

these accounts are the enhanced federal match received on eligible home and community-based

services between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022, allowable under Section 9817 of the American

Rescue Plan Act of 2021, P.L. 117-2. Funds deposited into the “HCBS Support- ARPA” account

will used to finance the state share of newly eligible medicaid expenditures by the executive office

of health and human services and its sister agencies, including the department of children, youth,

and families, the department of health, and the department of behavioral healthcare, developmental

disabilities, and hospitals. Funds deposited into the “HCBS Admin Support- ARPA” account will

used to finance the state share of allowable administrative expenditures attendant to the

implementation of these newly eligible medicaid expenditures. The accounts created under this

subsection shall be exempt from the indirect cost recovery provisions of Section 35-4-27 of the

Rhode Island general laws.

     (d) There is hereby created within the general fund of the state and housed within the budget

of the office of health and human services a restricted receipt account entitled “Rhode Island

Statewide Opioid Abatement Account” for the purpose of receiving and expending monies from

settlement agreements with opioid manufacturers, pharmaceutical distributors, pharmacies, or their

affiliates, as well as monies resulting from bankruptcy proceedings of the same entities. The

executive office of health and human services shall deposit any revenues from such sources that

are designated for opioid abatement purposes into the restricted receipt account. Funds from this

account shall only to be used for forward-looking opioid abatement efforts as defined and limited

by any settlement agreements, state-city and town agreements, or court orders pertaining to the use

of such funds. By January 1 of each calendar year, the secretary of health and human services shall

report to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and

the attorney general on the expenditures that were funded using monies from the Rhode Island

statewide opioid abatement account and the amount of funds spent. The account created under this

subsection shall be exempt from the indirect cost recovery provisions of Section 35-4-27 of the

Rhode Island General Laws.

     SECTION 5. Section 4 of this Article shall take effect as of July 1, 2021. Sections 1, 2,

and 3 of this Article shall take effect as of July 1, 2022.