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Budget Recommendations
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Outside Section 43
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 Health and Human Services Technology Transformation Fund
SECTION 43.
Said chapter 29, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out section 2AAA and inserting in place thereof the following section:-
Section 2AAA. There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Health and Human Services Information Technology Transformation Fund. The purposes of the fund shall be to provide agencies under the executive office of health and human services with funding to meet the costs of compliance with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HIPAA, as well as to transform the use of information technology within and between the health and human service agencies. There shall be credited to said fund revenues from federal reimbursements from Title XIX and Title XXI of the Social Security Act attributable to funds spent for HIPAA compliance, other federal reimbursements, grants, premiums, gifts, or other contributions received for HIPAA compliance, and federal revenue generated on non-capital spending on health and human service information technology projects. Amounts credited to the fund shall be held as an expendable trust and shall not be subject to further appropriation. No expenditure made from the fund shall cause the fund to be in deficit at the close of each fiscal year.
The secretary for administration and finance may allocate amounts in said fund to agencies within said executive office to meet the costs of compliance with HIPAA where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for such purpose, and for the transformation of the use of information technology within and across the health and human service agencies.
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