2016 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - (State Finance) FUNDS OF THE STATE
97-QQQQ - Cystic fibrosis research and education fund.

*   97-qqqq. Cystic fibrosis research and education fund. 1. There is
  hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of  taxation
  and  finance  and  the  comptroller  a  fund  to be known as the "cystic
  fibrosis research and education fund".
2. Such fund shall  consist  of  all  revenues  received  pursuant  to
  section  four  hundred  four-bb  of the vehicle and traffic 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 comptroller
  shall certify to  the  governor,  temporary  president  of  the  senate,
  speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair
  of  the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited
  in the cystic fibrosis research and education fund during the  preceding
  calendar  year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to section four
  hundred four-bb of the vehicle and traffic law and  from  grants,  gifts
  and bequests.
2-b.   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  moneys  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.  Moneys  of  the  fund  shall  be expended only for cystic fibrosis
  research projects and cystic fibrosis education projects approved by the
  department of health in New York state. As used  in  this  section,  the
  term  "cystic  fibrosis  research  project"  means  scientific  research
  approved by the department of health into the causes and/or treatment of
  cystic fibrosis, and the term "cystic fibrosis education project"  means
  a  project  approved  by the department of health aimed toward educating
  the general public about the causes, symptoms, and treatment  of  cystic
  fibrosis.
4.  Moneys  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 moneys received during a fiscal year are expended prior to  the
  end of that fiscal year.
* NB Effective January 17, 2017