1. (a) The department shall do the following:

   1. (1) Prepare an annual budget to provide for administrative and personnel expenses from the fund.
   2. (2) Submit the budget to the budget committee in accordance with IC 4-12-1 .
2. (b) The general assembly must appropriate the money in the fund to be used for administrative and personnel expenses before expenditure of the money. The commissioner shall order all other expenditures from the fund with the approval of the governor and the budget agency.

3. (c) Not more than four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000) of the fund is available to the department each year to fund grants awarded under IC 13-20-20 , exclusive of administrative and personnel expenditures authorized by section 1(a)(8) of this chapter.

   [Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-7-8.7-6.]

As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.237-1999, SEC.11.