2021 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
91-G - Senior Wellness in Nutrition Fund.

§  91-g.  Senior  wellness  in  nutrition  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 "senior
wellness in nutrition 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 twenty-six-a of the tax law,  and
all  other moneys 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 be expended solely for senior wellness  in
nutrition  programs  approved by the state office for the aging, for the
purpose of providing home delivered meals to seniors.
  4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
the  comptroller  on  vouchers approved and certified by the director of
the state office for the aging.
  5. To the extent practicable, the director of the state office for the
aging shall ensure that all monies received during  a  fiscal  year  are
expended prior to the end of such fiscal year.
  6.  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 senior wellness in nutrition fund during the  preceding  calendar
year  as  the result of revenue derived pursuant to sections two hundred
nine-M and six hundred twenty-six-a of the tax law.
  7. On or before the first day of February each year, the  director  of
the  state  office  for  the aging 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 aging, and chair of the
assembly aging committee. 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;
  (ii) recipients of awards from the fund;
  (iii) the amount awarded to each; and
  (iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted.