Section 380.1911 - School and child care center clean drinking water fund(1) The school and child care center clean drinking water fund is created within the state treasury.(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year remains in the fund and does not lapse into the general fund.(4) The department is the administrator of the fund for auditing purposes.(5) The department shall expend money from the fund, upon appropriation, only to create and operate a program to assist child care centers and schools with all of the following:(a) The 1-time acquisition and installation of filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets, in compliance with the plan.(b) Maintenance of filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets and replacement of filter cartridges, in compliance with the plan.(c) Costs associated with water sampling and testing.(d) Costs associated with mailing or delivering any water collected for water sampling and testing.(6) The department may award grants to operate the program under subsection (5). If it will achieve cost savings over independent purchases, the department may, for the purposes of subsection (5)(a), purchase and provide to program beneficiaries filtered bottle-filling stations, filtered faucets, point-of-use filters, or filter cartridges.Added by 2023, Act 154,s 6, eff. 10/24/2023.