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Section 430.624 - 9-8-8 Trust Fund established

ORS § 430.624

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Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation effective June 6, 2024
Section 430.624 - 9-8-8 Trust Fund established
(1) The 9-8-8 Trust Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the 9-8-8 Trust Fund shall be credited to the fund. The 9-8-8 Trust Fund consists of:
(a) Revenues from the 9-8-8 coordinated crisis services tax imposed under ORS 403.200 (1)(b);
(b) Appropriations made by the Legislative Assembly;
(c) Federal funds allocated to the state to implement the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis system;
(d) Gifts, grants and donations to the fund from public and private sources; and
(e) Moneys deposited into the fund from other sources.
(2) Moneys in the 9-8-8 Trust Fund are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Health Authority for the purposes specified in ORS 430.627 and 430.628.
(3) In accordance with 47 U.S.C. 251a, moneys in the 9-8-8 Trust Fund shall be sequestered and may be obligated or expended only for the purposes specified in ORS 430.627 and 430.628.
(4) Moneys in the 9-8-8 Trust Fund at the end of a biennium are retained in the fund and do not revert to the General Fund and are not subject to transfer to any other fund or to transfer, assignment or reassignment for any other use or purpose other than the purposes specified in ORS 430.627 and 430.628.
(5) Moneys in the 9-8-8 Trust Fund may not be used to displace available funding for services described in ORS 430.627 by Medicaid, Medicare, federal or state-regulated health insurance, disability insurance or local government programs or other federal, state or local funds for suicide prevention or behavioral health crisis services.
(6) The authority shall provide an annual report of deposits into and expenditures from the 9-8-8 Trust Fund to the Legislative Assembly and to the Federal Communications Commission.

ORS 430.624

Added by 2023 Ch. 251, § 1

430.624 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 430 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.