2020 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - 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.