Section 20 Retired Police Dog Care Fund

Said chapter 29 is hereby further amended by inserting after section 2OOOOOO the following section:-
Section 2PPPPPP. (a) There shall be a separate, non-budgeted special revenue fund known as the Retired Police Dog Care Fund, which shall be administered by the secretary of public safety and security. The fund shall be credited with: (i) appropriations or other money authorized or transferred by the general court and specifically designated to be credited to the fund; (ii) funds from public and private sources including, but not limited to, gifts, grants and donations; and (iii) interest earned on money in the fund. The unexpended balance in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall remain available for expenditure in subsequent fiscal years. No expenditure made from the fund shall cause the fund to be in deficit.
(b) Amounts credited to the fund shall be expended, without further appropriation, to make grants to nonprofit institutions to provide care and medical services to retired police dogs. The secretary of public safety and security shall be responsible for ensuring that funds are properly allocated to organizations for the care and medical needs of retired police dogs. For the purposes of this section, "retired police dog" shall mean a dog that was owned by a police department or police agency of the commonwealth, or any political subdivision thereof, and used by the department or agency for official duties; provided, however, that "retired police dog" shall include a police dog used by and retired from a federal agency operating in the commonwealth to perform services within the commonwealth.
(c) Annually, not later than March 1, the secretary of public safety and security shall issue a report to the clerks of the senate and house of representatives, the joint committee on public safety and homeland security and the senate and house committees on ways and means on the fund's activities including, but not limited to, amounts credited to the fund, amounts expended from the fund and any unexpended balance.