2016 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - (State Finance) FUNDS OF THE STATE
99-Z - Cure childhood cancer research fund.

*   99-z.  Cure  childhood  cancer  research 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 "cure childhood
  cancer research fund".
2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  section  four hundred four-cc 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 herein
  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 cure childhood cancer research fund during the preceding calendar
  year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to section  four  hundred
  four-cc  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 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. Monies of the fund shall be  expended  only  for  childhood  cancer
  research  projects  approved  by  the  department  of health in New York
  state. As used in this section,  the  term  "childhood  cancer  research
  project"   means   scientific  research  into  the  causes,  prevention,
  screening, treatment and cure of childhood cancers.
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 Effective May 27, 2017