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PART II 1 HUMAN SERVICES 2 NEW SECTION. Sec. 201. FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH 3 SERVICES 4 (1) The appropriations to the department of social and health 5 services in this act shall be expended for the programs and in the 6 amounts specified in this act. Appropriations made in this act to the 7 department of social and health services shall initially be allotted 8 as required by this act. Subsequent allotment modifications shall not 9 include transfers of moneys between sections of this act except as 10 expressly provided in this act, nor shall allotment modifications 11 permit moneys that are provided solely for a specified purpose to be 12 used for other than that purpose. 13 (2) The department of social and health services shall not 14 initiate any services that require expenditure of state general fund 15 moneys unless expressly authorized in this act or other law. The 16 department may seek, receive, and spend, under RCW 43.79.260 through 17 43.79.282, federal moneys not anticipated in this act as long as the 18 federal funding does not require expenditure of state moneys for the 19 program in excess of amounts anticipated in this act. If the 20 department receives unanticipated unrestricted federal moneys, those 21 moneys shall be spent for services authorized in this act or in any 22 other legislation providing appropriation authority, and an equal 23 amount of appropriated state general fund moneys shall lapse. Upon 24 the lapsing of any moneys under this subsection, the office of 25 financial management shall notify the legislative fiscal committees. 26 As used in this subsection, "unrestricted federal moneys" includes 27 block grants and other funds that federal law does not require to be 28 spent on specifically defined projects or matched on a formula basis 29 by state funds. 30 (3) The legislature finds that medicaid payment rates, as 31 calculated by the department pursuant to the appropriations in this 32 act, bear a reasonable relationship to the costs incurred by 33 efficiently and economically operated facilities for providing 34 quality services and will be sufficient to enlist enough providers so 35 that care and services are available to the extent that such care and 36 services are available to the general population in the geographic 37 area. The legislature finds that cost reports, payment data from the 38 federal government, historical utilization, economic data, and 39 p. 151 ESSB 5187.SL