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N.Y. State Finance Law § 95-d*2: "Life pass it on trust fund"

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  1. State Finance Law
  2. Article 6. Funds of the State

* § 95-d. "Life pass it on trust 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 "life pass it on trust

fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the

provisions of section four hundred four-u of the vehicle and traffic law

and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from

any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained 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.

2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the

commissioner of the department of health shall provide a written report

to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,

the chair of the senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly

ways and means committee, the chair of the senate committee on health,

the chair of the assembly health 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 disbursed 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 shall be expended only for organ transplant

research and education projects approved by the commissioner of health,

or to provide grants to not-for-profit corporations in this state which

are incorporated for the purpose of increasing and promoting organ and

tissue donation awareness provided, however, beginning April first, two

thousand fifteen, any revenues received or any monies appropriated,

credited or transferred to the fund on and after May first, two thousand

fourteen may also be expended to support the maintenance and operation

of the donate life registry in accordance with the provisions of section

forty-three hundred ten of the public health law.

4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of

the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner

of health.

5. 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.

* NB There are 2 § 95-d's

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