2020 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
89-I - Military Family Relief Fund.

§ 89-i. Military family relief 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 "military  family  relief
fund".
  2.  Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
of taxation and finance  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section  two
hundred  nine-L  and section six hundred thirty-f of the tax 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 fund
and depositing them into the fund according to law.
  3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for the aid  of  military
families.  Such  monies  may  be  used to provide assistance to military
families for housing, clothing, food, medical  services,  utilities,  or
any other related necessity of daily living. The New York state director
of  veterans'  affairs  shall  establish criteria for determining who is
eligible to receive assistance pursuant to this fund.
  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 taxation and finance.
  5. To the extent practicable, the New York state director of veterans'
affairs shall ensure that all monies received are  expended  within  one
calendar year from the date on which they are received.
  6.  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 military family relief fund during the preceding calendar year as
the result of revenue derived pursuant to sections  two  hundred  nine-L
and six hundred thirty-f of the tax law.
  7.  On  or  before  the  first day of February each year, the New York
state director 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,
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;
  (ii) the recipients of awards from the fund;
  (iii) the amount awarded to each recipient;
  (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.