1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services finance; restoring certain hospital payment 
1.3 	unallotments; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. HOSPITAL UNALLOTMENT RESTORATION.
 1.6 	(a) Notwithstanding the requirements of Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.152, 
1.7 	subdivision 2, if on the basis of a forecast of general fund revenues and expenditures, the 
1.8 	commissioner of finance determines that there will be a positive unrestricted budgetary 
1.9 	general fund balance at the close of the biennium ending June 30, 2009, the commissioner 
1.10 	must allocate the amount necessary, not to exceed $38,000,000, to restore the hospital 
1.11 	payment reductions due to unallotments by the governor in fiscal year 2009 of medical 
1.12 	education and research fund payments and disproportionate share hospital payments.
1.13 	(b) The allocation under paragraph (a) shall occur prior to the allocations in 
1.14 	Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.152, subdivision 2. The amounts necessary to meet the 
1.15 	requirements of this section are appropriated from the general fund to the commissioners 
1.16 	of human services and of health to restore the hospital payments.