Certain hospital fee revenues must be deposited in the Hospital Improvement Fund, with some amounts transferred to the Research and Training Account for specified fiscal years.
§2113.3. Hospital improvement fund A. All funds received from fees paid by or on behalf of patients in Louisiana Charity Hospital at New Orleans and Confederate Memorial Medical Center at Shreveport under the provisions of Titles 28, 40 and 46 of the Revised Statutes of Louisiana of 1950 shall be deposited in a special account in the State Treasury to be known as the Hospital Improvement Fund, to the credit of the collecting hospital. B. The monies so collected shall be credited to the account of the aforesaid hospitals in the Fund. For the fiscal year 1970-71 the first four hundred thousand dollars collected by Louisiana Charity Hospital at New Orleans shall be transferred to the Research and Training Account established under the provisions of R.S. 40:2113.1; for the fiscal years 1971-72 and 1972-73 the first two hundred thousand dollars collected by Louisiana Charity Hospital at New Orleans shall be transferred to the Research and Training Account established under the provisions of R.S. 40:2113.1; thereafter, no funds collected by Louisiana Charity Hospital at New Orleans shall be credited to the said Research and Training Account. The first one hundred thousand dollars credited to the account of Confederate Memorial Medical Center for the fiscal year 1970-71 shall likewise be transferred to the Research and Training Account established under the provisions of R.S. 40:2113.1; for the fiscal years 1971-72 and 1972-73 the first fifty thousand dollars credited to the account of Confederate Memorial Medical Center shall also be transferred to the Research and Training Account; thereafter, no monies credited to the account of Confederate Memorial Medical Center shall be transferred to the Research and Training Account. The remaining monies credited to the account of each such hospital in the fund are hereby dedicated without further or special appropriation to the respective hospital and shall be subject to expenditure from time to time for purchase of equipment. No part of the funds of any of said accounts shall revert to the State General Fund at the close of any fiscal year nor shall these funds be considered as other means of financing of the respective hospital. Acts 1970, No. 620, §2.