Civil registration and health statistics fee fund; authorized uses of moneys credited to fund; predecessor fund abolished, moneys and liabilities transferred to new fund

(a) There is hereby established the civil registration and health statistics fee fund in the state treasury which shall be administered by the secretary of health and environment. All expenditures from the civil registration and health statistics fee fund shall be for the operating expenditures of the center for health and environmental statistics of the department of health and environment, including the civil registration and health statistics functions and the implementation, maintenance and administration of the vital statistics integrated information system. All expenditures from the civil registration and health statistics fee fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary of health and environment or the secretary's designee. (b) On the effective date of this act, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer all moneys in the vital statistics maintenance fee fund to the civil registration and health statistics fee fund. On the effective date of this act, all liabilities of the vital statistics maintenance fee fund are hereby transferred to and imposed upon the civil registration and health statistics fee fund and the vital statistics maintenance fee fund is hereby abolished.