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33-1-204 - Unnecessary entitlements not created Programs subject to funding by general assembly.

33-1-204. Unnecessary entitlements not created Programs subject to funding by general assembly.

The provisions of this title shall not create entitlement to services and supports from the state except to the extent that services and supports are necessarily attached to deprivation of liberty by placement in facilities operated by the department. Implementation of any service or support at state expense under this title is subject to the availability of funds appropriated for that purpose in the general appropriations act.

[Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1.]