Opioid Recovery Trust Fund

(a)There is hereby created the Opioid Recovery Trust Fund (Fund), which shall be maintained separate and apart from any other funds of the Government of Guam, including the General Fund. The Fund shall be a continuing fund; amounts credited to the Fund shall not be subject to further appropriation and monies remaining in the Fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not be transferred to the General Fund. The Fund shall not be subject to any transfer authority of I Maga’hagan Guahan.

(b)The Fund shall include all money, payments, or other things of value in the nature of civil damages or other payment, except criminal penalties, received on behalf of Guam by the Office of the Attorney General

(OAG)of Guam relating to the manufacturing, marketing, distributing, promoting, or dispensing of opioids, whether such is received by way of verdict, judgment, compromise, or settlement in or out of court, of any case or COL4/6/2022 CH. 22 GENERAL FISCAL POLICIES AND CONTROLS controversy. The Fund shall also include any interest earned on such amounts.

(c)Monies in the Fund shall be used to supplement and not supplant or replace any other funds, including federal or local funding, which would otherwise have been expended for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, recovery or harm reduction services or programs. Further, general operating funds or baseline funding shall not be reduced due to monies expended from the Fund.

(d)The Office of the Attorney General shall promptly remit all money, payments, or other things of value to the Treasurer of Guam for credit to the Fund.

(e)The Office of the Attorney General, in consultation with the Opioid Recovery Advisory Council established by this Act, shall administer the Fund.

(f)In administering the Fund, the Office of the Attorney General may establish internal accounts to segregate funds received from different judgments or settlement agreements to the extent that different judgments or settlement agreements direct specific allocation of expenditures.