Bill > H5103

This bill, concerning the Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer's Disease Research Program in Florida, allows any unspent funds appropriated from the General Revenue Fund for this program to be carried forward for up to five years. This provision applies to funds that have been obligated through contracts or committed for expenditure by the end of the fiscal year in which they were originally appropriated, and it overrides certain standard state budgeting rules (specifically, section 216.301, which generally requires unspent funds to revert to the state treasury, and is enabled by section 216.351, which allows for exceptions). The purpose of this change is to ensure that research funding is not lost if it is already committed to ongoing projects, thereby supporting continuous research efforts.