2016 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - (State Finance) FUNDS OF THE STATE
99-V*2 - Homeless veterans assistance fund.

*   99-v.  Homeless  veterans  assistance  fund.  1.  There is hereby
  established in the joint custody of the  commissioner  of  taxation  and
  finance,  the  New  York  state  director  of  veterans  affairs and the
  comptroller, a special fund  to  be  known  as  the  "homeless  veterans
  assistance fund".
2.  Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
  of taxation and finance, pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section  six
  hundred   twenty-seven-b   of   the   tax  law,  and  all  other  moneys
  appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any  other  fund  or
  source  pursuant  to  law.  For  each  state fiscal year, there shall be
  appropriated to the fund by the state, in addition to all  other  moneys
  required  to be deposited into such fund, an amount equal to the amounts
  of moneys collected and deposited into the fund pursuant to section  six
  hundred  twenty-seven-b  of  the  tax  law,  and  the  amounts of moneys
  received and deposited into the fund from  grants,  gifts  and  bequests
  during  the  preceding  calendar  year, as certified by the comptroller.
  Nothing in this section shall prevent  the  state  from  soliciting  and
  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 director of
  the New York state division of veterans' affairs 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 veterans,
  homeland security and military affairs, chair of the assembly  veterans'
  affairs  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 dispersed 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.  On  or before the first day of February of each calendar year, the
  comptroller shall certify to the governor, the  temporary  president  of
  the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance
  committee  and  the  chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the
  amount of money deposited  in  the  homeless  veterans  assistance  fund
  during  the  preceding  calendar  year  as the result of revenue derived
  pursuant to section six hundred twenty-seven-b of the tax law, and  from
  all grants, gifts and bequests.
4.  Moneys  of  the fund shall be expended only for the assistance and
  care of homeless veterans, for housing and housing-related expenses,  as
  determined by the division of veterans affairs.
5.  Moneys  shall  be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant of
  the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the New York state
  director of veterans affairs. Any interest received by  the  comptroller
  on  moneys  on deposit in the homeless veterans assistance fund shall be
  retained in and become part of such fund.
* NB There are 2  99-v's