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When state agencies don't spend all their appropriated funding by the end of a fiscal year, those leftover dollars — called lapsing balances — typically flow back into the General Fund. This bill would create a new Unspent Balances Restricted Account and, in years when the state has a General Fund revenue surplus (and doesn't have a larger Income Tax Fund deficit), would require the Division of Finance to deposit 50% of those lapsing balances and 50% of any excess account balance transfers into this new account, up to a cap of $5 million per year. Money in the account could then be used, subject to legislative approval, with up to half going to the Office of Child Care for child care subsidies or grants and up to half going to the Department of Health and Human Services for behavioral health purposes as directed by the Utah Behavioral Health Commission.