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PART XII 1 HUMAN SERVICES 2 SUPPLEMENTAL 3 Sec. 1201. 2022 c 297 s 201 (uncodified) is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES 6 (1) The appropriations to the department of social and health 7 services in this act shall be expended for the programs and in the 8 amounts specified in this act. Appropriations made in this act to the 9 department of social and health services shall initially be allotted 10 as required by this act. Subsequent allotment modifications shall not 11 include transfers of moneys between sections of this act except as 12 expressly provided in this act, nor shall allotment modifications 13 permit moneys that are provided solely for a specified purpose to be 14 used for other than that purpose. 15 (2) The department of social and health services shall not 16 initiate any services that require expenditure of state general fund 17 moneys unless expressly authorized in this act or other law. The 18 department may seek, receive, and spend, under RCW 43.79.260 through 19 43.79.282, federal moneys not anticipated in this act as long as the 20 federal funding does not require expenditure of state moneys for the 21 program in excess of amounts anticipated in this act. If the 22 department receives unanticipated unrestricted federal moneys, those 23 moneys shall be spent for services authorized in this act or in any 24 other legislation providing appropriation authority, and an equal 25 amount of appropriated state general fund moneys shall lapse. Upon 26 the lapsing of any moneys under this subsection, the office of 27 financial management shall notify the legislative fiscal committees. 28 As used in this subsection, "unrestricted federal moneys" includes 29 block grants and other funds that federal law does not require to be 30 spent on specifically defined projects or matched on a formula basis 31 by state funds. 32 (3) The legislature finds that medicaid payment rates, as 33 calculated by the department pursuant to the appropriations in this 34 act, bear a reasonable relationship to the costs incurred by 35 efficiently and economically operated facilities for providing 36 quality services and will be sufficient to enlist enough providers so 37 that care and services are available to the extent that such care and 38 services are available to the general population in the geographic 39 p. 888 ESSB 5187.SL