Missouri Revised Statutes Title XI. Education and Libraries § 172.820. Appropriations by general assembly, purpose

The general assembly shall appropriate, as a separate line item appropriation, to the curators of the University of Missouri for the state cancer center, out of the state treasury from general revenue such sums of money as are deemed necessary to maintain, operate, repair and improve the Missouri state cancer center. State funds shall be appropriated to the center from general revenue for the payment of treatment and care of those persons who cannot pay for such services, and for capital improvements for cancer center property including repairs, maintenance, preventive maintenance and renovation, for the design and planning of maintenance, preventive maintenance and renovation projects and for such other purposes as the general assembly may deem appropriate.