2021 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
82 - Gifts to Food Banks Fund.

§  82. Gifts to food banks fund. 1. There is hereby established in the
sole custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance a special  fund
to  be known as the "gifts to food banks fund". Monies in the fund shall
be kept separate from and not commingled with other funds  held  in  the
sole custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance.
  2.  Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
of taxation and finance  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section  six
hundred  twenty-five-a  of the tax law and all other money appropriated,
credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source  pursuant
to  law.  Nothing 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, after appropriation by the legislature,
be made available to the department of health  for  grants  to  regional
food  banks,  organized  to  serve  specific  regions of the state, that
generally collect  and  redistribute  food  donations  to  organizations
serving  persons  in  need. Monies shall be payable from the fund by the
commissioner of  taxation  and  finance  on  vouchers  approved  by  the
commissioner  of  health.    The commissioner of health shall promulgate
rules and regulations necessary for the distribution of such grants.
  4. 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.
  5. 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  gifts  to food banks fund during the preceding calendar year as
the  result  of  revenue  derived  pursuant  to  section   six   hundred
twenty-five-a of the tax law.
  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  social  services,  chair  of  the assembly social
services committee, 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;
  (b) the recipients of awards from the fund;
  (c) the amount awarded to each recipient;
  (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.