2021 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
92-W - Missing and Exploited Children Clearinghouse Fund.

§  92-w.  Missing  and  exploited  children  clearinghouse  fund. 1. A
special fund  to  be  known  as  the  "missing  and  exploited  children
clearinghouse  fund"  is  hereby established in the custody of the state
comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance.
  2. The fund shall consist of  all  monies  transferred  to  such  fund
pursuant  to law, all monies required by any provision of law to be paid
into or credited to the fund, all moneys from gifts pursuant to  section
six  hundred twenty-eight of the tax law and any interest earnings which
may accrue from the investment of monies in the fund. 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 director of
the division of criminal justice services 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 codes, chair of the assembly
codes 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;
  (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,  when  allocated, shall be available to the
division of criminal justice services  for  the  enhancement  of  public
information  and  prevention  education  efforts including production of
print, video and radio advertising materials, brochures,  pamphlets  and
outdoor  advertising, or for any other activity or purpose that will aid
in the prevention of the exploitation of children or in the recovery  of
missing  and  exploited children, as deemed necessary by the missing and
exploited children  clearinghouse  created  pursuant  to  section  eight
hundred thirty-seven-f of the executive law.
  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 division of criminal justice services.