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 Appropriations

Chapter 12

department shall report to the budget section after June 30, 2014, any transfers made in excess of $50,000 and to the appropriations committees of the sixty-fourth legislative assembly regarding any transfers made pursuant to this section. SECTION 4. EXEMPTION. The amount appropriated for the replacement of the medicaid management information system in chapter 50 of the 2007 Session Laws is not subject to the provisions of section 54-44.1-11. Any unexpended funds from this appropriation approved under section 54-44.1-11 for continuation into the 2009-11 biennium and then the 2011-13 biennium are available for the completion of the medicaid management information system project during the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015. SECTION 5. MEDICAID UPPER PAYMENT LIMITS. Any appropriated increase for department providers paid with medicaid funding, may only be provided to the extent the increase will not exceed the upper payment limit for that specific medicaid service. SECTION 6. LEGISLATIVE INTENT - REBASE RURAL HEALTH CLINICS. It is the intent of the legislative assembly that the department of human services rebase rural health clinics to the medicare rates. Future increases will be authorized based on approved inflationary increases. 2 SECTION 7. AMENDMENT. Subdivision f of subsection 2 of section 12-60-24 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:

f. The department of human services for foster care licenses and approvals under chapter 50-11, appointments of legal guardians under chapter 50-11.3, and petitions for adoptions under chapter 50-12, except that the criminal history record investigation must be conducted in accordance with those chapters. A criminal history record investigation completed under chapter 50-11, 50-11.3, or 50-12 may be used to satisfy the requirements of a criminal history record investigation under either of the other two chapters. SECTION 8. AMENDMENT. Subsection 3 of section 14-09-09.10 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows: 3. "Child support" means payments for the support of childrena child, including payments for health insurance coverage or other medical support, and combined payments for the support of children and spouses or former spouses with whom the child is living as long as the spousal support payment is owed to the spouse or former spouse under the same order as the payments for the child, however denominated, if the payment is required by the order of a court or other governmental agency having authority to issue such orders, and includes past-due support. SECTION 9. AMENDMENT. Subsection 6 of section 50-24.7-01 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows: 6. "Eligible beneficiary" means a resident of this state who: a. (1) Is aged; or 2

Section 12-60-24 was also amended by section 1 of House Bill No. 1327, chapter 491, section 1 of House Bill No. 1389, chapter 325, section 1 of Senate Bill No. 2110, chapter 324, and section 1 of Senate Bill No. 2304, chapter 232.