N.Y. State Finance Law § 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.