2016 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - (State Finance) FUNDS OF THE STATE
95-E*2 - New York state autism awareness and research fund.

*   95-e.  The  New York state autism awareness and research fund. 1.
  There is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner  of
  taxation  and finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as
  the New York state autism awareness and research fund.
2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  section  four  hundred four-v of the vehicle and traffic
  law, as added by chapter three hundred one of the laws of  two  thousand
  four,  all revenues received pursuant to section six hundred thirty-d of
  the tax law and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or  transferred
  thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained
  in  this section shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or
  bequests for the purposes of the fund as defined  in  this  section  and
  depositing them into the fund according to law.
2-a.   On  or  before  the  first  day  of  February  each  year,  the
  commissioner of health shall provide a written report to  the  temporary
  president  of  the  senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate
  finance committee, chair of the assembly ways and means committee, chair
  of the  senate  committee  on  health,  chair  of  the  assembly  health
  committee,  the  state  comptroller  and  the  public. Such report shall
  include how the monies of the fund were utilized  during  the  preceding
  calendar year, and shall include:
(i)  the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process
  used for such disbursements;
(ii) recipients of awards from the fund;
(iii) the amount awarded to each;
(iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
(v) a summary financial plan  for  such  monies  which  shall  include
  estimates  of  all  receipts  and  all disbursements for the current and
  succeeding fiscal years, along with the actual results  from  the  prior
  fiscal year.
3.  (a) Monies of the fund shall be expended only for autism awareness
  projects or autism research  projects  approved  by  the  department  of
  health  in  New  York  state  provided,  however,  that no more than ten
  percent of monies from such fund shall  be  expended  on  the  aggregate
  number of autism research projects approved in a fiscal year.
(b)  As used in this section, the term "autism research project" means
  scientific research approved by the department of health into the causes
  and/or treatment of autism, and  the  term  "autism  awareness  project"
  means  a  project  approved  by  the  department  of health aimed toward
  educating the general public about the causes, symptoms, and  treatments
  of autism.
4.  Monies  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
  the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  commissioner
  of health.
5.  To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure
  that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to  the
  end of that fiscal year.
* NB There are 2  95-e's