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The committee concluded that more technical background was necessary and it directed that the Department of Health , Education , and Welfare prepare a study of the problem . Despite the program 's success , Governor Haley Barbour , the state Division of Medicaid and the Health Care Trust Fund , led by State Treasurer Tate Reeves , filed motions to vacate the December 2000 order and direct the $ 20 million away from tobacco prevention and into the Trust Fund . In 1999 , the Legislature passed and then-Governor Kirk Fordice signed a law which placed all settlement payments , other than those set aside for the tobacco prevention programs as mandated by the terms of Mississippi 's settlement agreement , in a Health Care Trust Fund . This is critical to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services developing programs to combat bioterrorism and other public health emergencies such as pandemic flu . The Secretary may transfer such funds to the Secretary of Health and Human Services as are necessary to carry out such agreements ( including administrative costs of the Secretary of Health and Human Services ) , and the Secretary of Health and Human Services may expend any such transferred funds to procure such countermeasures for use by the Armed Forces , or to replenish the stockpile .