EXECUTIVE ORDER
06-22

WHEREAS, in November 1998, the State of Missouri entered into a settlement with four major tobacco companies whereby the State of Missouri will recover approximately $160 million per year from those companies; and

WHEREAS, Governor Holden created the Healthy Families Trust Fund by Executive Order 01-05, into which the moneys from the tobacco companies could be deposited and subsequently distributed by legislative appropriation; and

WHEREAS, Executive Order 01-05 created the following accounts within the Healthy Families Trust Fund:

Healthy Families Trust Fund-Seniors and Catastrophic Prescription Drug Account; Healthy Families Trust Fund-Health Care Treatment and Access Account; Healthy Families Trust Fund-Tobacco Prevention, Education, and Cessation Account; Healthy Families Trust Fund-Life Sciences Research Account; Healthy Families Trust Fund-Early Childhood Care and Education Account; and

WHEREAS, it is the duty of the commissioner of administration to account for all moneys received by the state from any source and to assist in preparing estimates and information concerning receipts and expenditures of all state agencies as required by the governor and the general assembly; and

WHEREAS, commissioner of administration Michael Keathley found the multiple accounts created by Executive Order 01-05 fostered inefficiency and caused needless administrative overhead in the management of the accounts; and

WHEREAS, utilizing multiple accounts is unnecessary for the State of Missouri to properly administer the receipt of the settlement moneys; and

WHEREAS, tracking the receipt and use of settlement moneys and legislative appropriations can most efficiently and effectively be made using only one account.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Matt Blunt, Governor of the State of Missouri, under the authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of the State of Missouri hereby direct the commissioner of administration to abolish the following accounts within the state treasury for the next available budget cycle:

Healthy Families Trust Fund-Seniors and Catastrophic Prescription Drug Account; Healthy Families Trust Fund-Health Care Treatment and Access Account; Healthy Families Trust Fund-Tobacco Prevention, Education, and Cessation Account; Healthy Families Trust Fund-Life Sciences Research Account; Healthy Families Trust Fund-Early Childhood Care and Education Account.

I further direct the commissioner of administration to transfer all moneys from the sub-accounts set forth above into the Healthy Families Trust Fund and to receive and expend all tobacco settlement payments in accordance with the budget enacted by the general assembly, and signed by me, by means of one account only, which shall remain known as the Healthy Families Trust Fund.

This Executive Order rescinds Executive Order 01-05.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, in the City of Jefferson on this 22nd day of June, 2006.

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