- (a) Pass-through appropriations are prohibited. An agency director, assistant director, executive assistant, or any similar direct subordinate directing or permitting a pass-through appropriation shall be subject to disciplinary action or dismissal, or both, by the appropriate appointing authority.
- (b) An agency director, assistant director, executive assistant, or any similar direct subordinate who violates this section shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor unless the agency director, assistant director, executive assistant, or any similar direct subordinate did not know and did not have reason to know of the pass-through appropriation. Acts constituting a violation of this chapter shall not be the basis for a violation of any other criminal law by the agency director, assistant director, executive assistant, or any similar direct subordinate or any other person.
(Act 2010-759, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 7, §4.)