(a) The legislature shall annually pass and transmit to the governor a bill making appropriations of money for the state‘s integrated comprehensive mental health program.

Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 37.14.005

  • 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
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) The legislature shall make appropriations for the state’s integrated comprehensive mental health program in a separate appropriation bill limited to appropriations for the state’s integrated comprehensive mental health program.
(c) If the appropriations in the bill passed by the legislature differ from those proposed by the authority, the bill must be accompanied by a report explaining the reasons for the differences between the appropriations in the bill and the authority’s recommendations for expenditures from the general fund for the state’s integrated comprehensive mental health program.
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