90-4-215. Account established -- use. (1) There is created an energy conservation and energy assistance account within the federal special revenue fund established in 17-2-102.
     (2) The amounts deposited in the account and interest and earnings on the account are statutorily appropriated, as provided in 17-7-502, to the department of public health and human services to fund its low-income energy assistance and home weatherization programs created in 90-4-201. However, the department may use the principal of the account only if the federal grants for either of those programs is reduced below the federal fiscal year 1987 level. The department may not use the principal to increase expenditures to either program above the level of the federal grant for that program for federal fiscal year 1987.

     History: En. Sec. 3, HB 621, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 564, Ch. 546, L. 1995.