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SECTION 1. Section 43-13-407, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

[Until June 30, 2007, this section shall read as follows:]

43-13-407. (1) In accordance with the purposes of this article, there is established in the State Treasury the Health Care Expendable Fund, into which shall be transferred from the Health Care Trust Fund the following sums:

(a) In fiscal year 2005, Four Hundred Fifty-six Million Dollars ($456,000,000.00);

(b) In fiscal year 2006, One Hundred Eighty-six Million Dollars ($186,000,000.00);

(d) In fiscal year 2008, One Hundred Six Million Dollars ($106,000,000.00);

(e) In fiscal year 2009, Sixty-six Million Dollars ($66,000,000.00);

(f) In fiscal year 2010 and each fiscal year thereafter, a sum equal to the average annual amount of the dividends, interest and other income, including increases in value of the principal, earned on the funds in the Health Care Trust Fund during the preceding four (4) fiscal years.

(2) In any fiscal year in which interest, dividends and other income from the investment of the funds in the Health Care Trust Fund are not sufficient to fund the full amount of the annual transfer into the Health Care Expendable Fund as required in subsection (1)(f) of this section, the State Treasurer shall transfer from tobacco settlement installment payments an amount that is sufficient to fully fund the amount of the annual transfer.

(3) * * * On March 6, 2002, the State Treasurer shall transfer the sum of Eighty-seven Million Dollars ($87,000,000.00) from the Health Care Trust Fund into the Health Care Expendable Fund. In addition, at the time the State of Mississippi receives thetobacco settlement installment payments for each of the calendar years 2002 and 2003, the State Treasurer shall deposit the full amount of each of those installment payments into the Health Care Expendable Fund.

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(4) The total sum of Two Hundred Forty Million Dollars ($240,000,000.00) plus interest at the rate of five percent (5%) per annum shall be transferred into the Health Care Trust Fund from the State General Fund during fiscal years 2007 through 2013 to repay the trust fund for Two Hundred Forty Million Dollars ($240,000,000.00) of the total sum that is transferred from the trust fund to the Health Care Expendable Fund during fiscal year 2005 under subsection (1)(a) of this section. The repayment shall be made according to the following schedule: During each of fiscal years 2007 through 2012, the State Fiscal Officer shall transfer from the General Fund to the Health Care Trust Fund the sum of Thirty-eight Million Dollars ($38,000,000.00), and during fiscal year 2013 the State Fiscal Officer shall transfer from the State General Fund to the Health Care Trust Fund a sum in the amount certified by the State Treasurer as necessary to fully repay the balance of the Two Hundred Forty Million Dollars ($240,000,000.00) plus interest at the rate of five percent (5%) per annum.

(5) All income from the investment of the funds in the Health Care Expendable Fund shall be credited to the account of the Health Care Expendable Fund. Any funds in the Health Care Expendable Fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund.

(6) The funds in the Health Care Expendable Fund shall be available for expenditure under specific appropriation by the Legislature beginning in fiscal year 2000, and shall be expended exclusively for health care purposes.

(7) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section may not be changed in any manner except upon amendment to that subsection by a bill enacted by the Legislature with a vote of not less than three-fifths (3/5) of the members of each house present and voting.

(8) Subsections (1), (2), (5) and (6) of this section shall stand repealed on July 1, 2011.

[From and after July 1, 2007, this section shall read as follows:]

(a) In fiscal year 2005, Four Hundred Fifty-six Million Dollars ($456,000,000.00);

(b) In fiscal year 2006, One Hundred Eighty-six Million Dollars ($186,000,000.00);

(d) In fiscal year 2008, One Hundred Six Million Dollars ($106,000,000.00);

(e) In fiscal year 2009, Sixty-six Million Dollars ($66,000,000.00);

(3) (a) On March 6, 2002, the State Treasurer shall transfer the sum of Eighty-seven Million Dollars ($87,000,000.00) from the Health Care Trust Fund into the Health Care Expendable Fund. In addition, at the time the State of Mississippi receives thetobacco settlement installment payments for each of the calendar years 2002 and 2003, the State Treasurer shall deposit the full amount of each of those installment payments into the Health Care Expendable Fund.

(b) If during any fiscal year after March 6, 2002, the general fund revenues received by the state exceed the general fund revenues received during the previous fiscal year by more than five percent (5%), the Legislature shall repay to the Health Care Trust Fund one-third (1/3) of the amount of the general fund revenues that exceed the five percent (5%) growth in general fund revenues. The repayment required by this paragraph shall continue in each fiscal year in which there is more than five percent (5%) growth in general fund revenues, until the full amount of the funds that were transferred and deposited into the Health Care Expendable Fund under the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection have been repaid to the Health Care Trust Fund.

(8) Subsections (1), (2), (5) and (6) of this section shall stand repealed on July 1, 2011.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.