2020 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
97-PPPP*2 - Sickle Cell Disease Research and Education Fund.

* § 97-pppp. Sickle cell disease 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
"sickle cell disease research and education fund".
  2.  Such  fund  shall  consist  of  all  revenues received pursuant to
section four hundred four-y 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  sickle  cell  disease  research  and  education fund during the
preceding calendar year as the result of  revenue  derived  pursuant  to
section  four  hundred  four-y  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 sickle  cell  disease
research projects and sickle cell disease education projects approved by
the department of health in New York state. As used in this section, the
term  "sickle  cell  disease research project" means scientific research
approved by the department of health into the causes and/or treatment of
sickle cell  disease,  and  the  term  "sickle  cell  disease  education
project"  means  a  project  approved  by the department of health aimed
toward educating the general public  about  the  causes,  symptoms,  and
treatment of sickle cell disease.
  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 There are 2 § 97-pppp's