(a) The Emergency Personnel Survivors Benefit Special Fund is established in the Office of the State Treasurer for the purpose of the payment of claims distributed pursuant to this chapter. The Fund shall comprise appropriations made by the General Assembly and contributions or donations from any other source. All balances in the Fund at the end of the fiscal year shall be carried forward. Interest earned shall remain in the Fund.

(b) [Repealed.]  (Added 2001, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2005, No. 33, § 1; 2007, No. 65, § 288; 2011, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 51, eff. May 14, 2012.)