2020 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
97-SSSS - Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Research, Education and Treatment Fund.

* §  97-ssss.  Leukemia,  lymphoma and myeloma research, education and
treatment 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  "leukemia,  lymphoma  and  myeloma  research,
education and treatment 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-M  and section six hundred thirty-g 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.
  2-a.  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, the speaker of the assembly, the chair  of  the
senate  finance  committee,  the  chair  of  the assembly ways and means
committee, the chair of the senate committee on health, the 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 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 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.
  3.  Monies  of  the fund shall be expended only for leukemia, lymphoma
and myeloma research, education and treatment projects. As used in  this
section,   "leukemia,  lymphoma  and  myeloma  research,  education  and
treatment projects" means research, education  and  treatment  projects,
including  grants for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education
and  treatment,  which,  pursuant  to   section   twenty-seven   hundred
forty-seven  of the public health law, are approved by the department of
health. Such grants may include, among  others,  grants  to  public  and
private   hospitals,   medical   centers,   medical  schools  and  other
organizations.
  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 There are 2 § 97-ssss's