AR SB772

Appropriates $1,000,000 to the Department of Human Services for personal services and operating expenses of the Medicaid Office of Program Integrity, payable from the General Improvement Fund.

Requires all fund disbursements to comply with the State Procurement Law, General Accounting and Budgetary Procedures Law, Revenue Stabilization Law, Regular Salary Procedures and Restrictions Act, and other applicable state fiscal control laws.

Specifies that disbursed funds must be used in compliance with stated reasons for the appropriation as documented in budget manuals, agency requests, executive recommendations, and legislative council or joint budget committee minutes.

Declares an emergency effective date of July 1, 2013, citing the state constitutional prohibition on appropriations lasting more than one year and the need for continuous agency operations.