N.Y. State Finance Law § 95-e*2: The New York state autism awareness and research fund

* § 95-e. The New York state autism awareness and research 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 New York state autism awareness and research fund.

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

provisions of section four hundred four-v of the vehicle and traffic

law, as added by chapter three hundred one of the laws of two thousand

four, all revenues received pursuant to section six hundred thirty-d of

the tax 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 office for people with developmental disabilities

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

health, 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. (a) Monies of the fund shall be expended only for autism awareness

projects or autism research projects approved by the office for people

with developmental disabilities in New York state provided, however,

that no more than ten percent of monies from such fund shall be expended

on the aggregate number of autism research projects approved in a fiscal

year.

(b) As used in this section, the term "autism research project" means

scientific research approved by the office for people with developmental

disabilities into the causes and/or treatment of autism, and the term

"autism awareness project" means a project approved by the office for

people with developmental disabilities aimed toward educating the

general public about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of autism.

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 the office for people with developmental disabilities.

5. To the extent practicable, the commissioner of the office for

people with developmental disabilities 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-e's