2020 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
97-RRRR - Lupus Education and Prevention Fund.

§  97-rrrr.  Lupus  education  and prevention 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 "lupus
education and prevention 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 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.
  3.  Monies  of the fund shall be expended only for lupus education and
prevention projects. As used  in  this  section,  "lupus  education  and
prevention  projects"  means  educational projects, including grants for
lupus education and prevention  programs,  which  are  approved  by  the
department of health.
  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.
  6.  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:
  (a)  the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process
used for such disbursements;
  (b) recipients of awards from the fund;
  (c) the amount awarded to each;
  (d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
  (e) 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.