N.Y. State Finance Law § 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.