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(1)
(a) Beginning fiscal year 2022, the department may:
(i) designate up to three existing programs, as defined in Section 63J-1-102, within the department as priority programs to receive unrestricted General Fund money that is reallocated under Subsection (1)(a)(ii); and
(ii) reallocate unexpended, unrestricted General Fund money from a program in one line item within the department to one or more of the designated priority programs in another line item within the department.
(b) The department shall make any reallocation of unexpended money under Subsection (1)(a) before the end of the fiscal year in which the money was appropriated.
(c) The department may not make a reallocation under this section if the reallocation:
(i) results in the creation of a new program, benefit, or service;
(ii) results in a significant expansion of:
(A) a program; or
(B) the scope or type of benefit or service already provided; or
(iii) provides funding for a budget request that the Legislature previously declined.
(2) On or before December 1 of each year, the department shall report to the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee:
(a) on the department's designation of priority programs to receive the unexpended money under Subsection (1)(a); and
(b) if applicable, on the department's use, during the prior fiscal year, of unexpended money reallocated under Subsection (1).
(3) Except in accordance with pay plans developed and adopted as described in Subsection 63A-17-307(4)(a), the department may not allocate unexpended money under Subsection (1) for a priority program's personnel costs.