Terms Used In Missouri Laws 189.030

  • 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
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Upon receipt of the information from the director, the state board of health and senior services shall within forty-five days examine the proposed allocated appropriations to ensure that such funds are allocated proportionately to qualifying hospitals in a ratio based upon available funds as compared to the maximum entitlement of each qualifying hospital and either approve them within the limit of the budget recommendation, or shall disapprove proposed allocated appropriations or parts thereof which it does not find to be reasonable for the improvement of care to poor patients in the hospital or hospitals. If any appropriation or part thereof is disapproved by the board of health and senior services, the director may continue to submit revised proposals to the state board of health and senior services within the limits of the budget recommendation therefor until the state board of health and senior services approves the appropriation within the limits of the budget recommendation. The board shall send a letter on the proposed appropriations allocation approved by it to the director and to the chief fiscal officer of the city, county, corporation, or district. Thereafter by June fifteenth of each year the state board of health and senior services shall revise the allocations within the appropriation therefor.