(a) The following are exempt from this subchapter:

(1) Funds required by the terms of a bond indenture to be held by paying agents for the payment of interest and principal on such bonds;

(2) Petty cash funds held by the various state agencies;

(3) Memorials, endowments, bequests, gifts, and donations made to any state agency other than for normal operation of the agency;

(4) Canteen funds of state agencies other than institutions of higher education, wherein the profits earned are used for the benefit of the people served by that agency through the purchase of services or goods other than normal salary or maintenance expenses of the agency;

(5) The Benefit Fund of the Department of Workforce Services;

(6) The Revenue Bond Guaranty Reserve Account of the Arkansas Economic Development Council;

(7) The Illegal Drug Purchase Account and the Confidential Accounts of the Department of Arkansas State Police;

(8) Patient funds, when the institution is acting in a trust capacity or when the funds are utilized for patient activities other than normal agency-provided services;

(9) The State Treasury Money Management Trust; and

(10) Any other funds determined by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State or the General Assembly, to be held in trust and on deposit in a financial institution other than the State Treasury.

(b) The Department of Correction Plasma Center is exempt from provisions of this subchapter.

(c) The Arkansas Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool, created under the Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool Act, § 23-79-501 et seq., and its board of directors, and the Arkansas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Fund and its advisory association, referenced under the Arkansas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Act, § 23-90-101 et seq., and the Arkansas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association and its board of directors, referenced under the Arkansas Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act, § 23-96-101 et seq., are hereby exempt from the provisions of this subchapter.

(d) The Tobacco Settlement Cash Holding Fund administered by the State Board of Finance shall be exempt from the provisions of this subchapter.