House Bill NO. 1609

By Representative(s) Reeves

SECTION 11. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Department of Archives and History for the purpose of reauthorizing the expenditure of the State General Funds, as authorized in House Bill No. 1628, Regular Session of 1999, for the completion of a portrait of former Governor Bill Allain to be hung in the Hall of Governors in the State Capitol, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001..................$ 2,500.00.

It is the intention of the Legislature that with the funds provided in this section that the Department of Archives and History is directed to complete the portrait of Governor Allain and place the portrait in the Hall of Governors no later than June 30, 2001.

Notwithstanding the amount reappropriated under the provisions of this section, in no event shall the amount expended exceed the unexpended balance as of June 30, 2000.