Section 4-12-8.5-3 - Regional health care construction account; established(a) The regional health care construction account is established for the purpose of providing funding for state psychiatric hospitals and developmental centers, regional health centers, or other health facilities designed to provide crisis treatment, rehabilitation, or intervention for adults or children with mental illness, developmental disabilities, addictions, or other medical or rehabilitative needs. The account consists of: (1) amounts, if any, that any statute requires to be distributed to the account from the Indiana tobacco master settlement agreement fund;(2) appropriations to the account from other sources; and(3) grants, gifts, and donations intended for deposit in the account.(b) The budget agency shall administer the account. Money in the account at the end of a state fiscal year does not revert to the state general fund but remains available for expenditure.(c) Money in the account may be used for: (1) the construction, equipping, renovation, demolition, refurbishing, or alteration of existing or new state hospitals, regional health centers, or other health facilities; or(2) lease rentals to the Indiana finance authority under IC 4-13.5 or other public or private providers of such facilities.(d) Money in the account shall be used to pay any outstanding lease rentals before making any other payments from the account.(e) Money in the account is annually appropriated for the purposes described in this chapter.As added by P.L. 291-2001, SEC.72. Amended by P.L. 224-2003, SEC.118; P.L. 235-2005, SEC.53.