The 'low income utility assistance fund' is created in the state treasury. Payments shall be made from the low income utility assistance fund upon warrants drawn by the secretary of finance and administration pursuant to vouchers signed by the secretary of health care authority. Such payments shall be made for the costs and administration of the Low Income Utility Assistance Act.History: Laws 1979, ch. 290, § 6; 1980, ch. 118, § 5; 2024, ch. 39, § 105.ANNOTATIONSThe 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, replaced the head of the human services department with the secretary of health care authority as the administrator of the low income utility assistance fund; and after 'signed by the' deleted 'head of the department' and added 'secretary of health care authority'. Partial veto valid. — Governor's partial veto of the provision in Laws 1981, ch. 168, designating the income support division of the human services department [health care authority department] as the agency responsible for administering this fund, is valid. 1981 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 81-12.
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