CHAPTER 119

(HB 1019)

Board of Regents appropriation for office of medical education.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  make an appropriation to fund the Office of Medical Education and to declare an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of three hundred thirty- two thousand four hundred thirty-three dollars ($332,433), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Board of Regents to fund the Office of Medical Education.

     Section  2.  The executive director of the Board of Regents shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized by this Act.

     Section  3.  Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated by June   30, 2005, shall revert in accordance with §   4-8-21.

     Section  4.  Whereas, this Act is necessary for the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

     Signed February 18, 2004.

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