N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-dddd: Community mental health support and workforce reinvestment account

* § 97-dddd. Community mental health support and workforce

reinvestment account. 1. There is hereby created in the custody of the

state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance an

account of the special revenue fund to be known as the community mental

health support and workforce reinvestment account.

2. The commissioner of the office of mental health shall notify the

director of the budget when the number of children's psychiatric center

beds or adult, non-geriatric psychiatric center beds closed in any one

year exceeds the number of beds projected to be closed by the office of

mental health in the executive budget request submitted in the year

prior to the fiscal year for which the executive budget is being

submitted. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the

contrary the director of the budget shall then transfer the amount of

actual state operations general fund appropriation reductions, including

personal service and nonpersonal service, directly attributed to the

closure of such beds, to the state comptroller who shall then credit

such appropriation reductions to the community mental health support and

workforce reinvestment account. The per bed appropriation reduction

shall be no less than one hundred ten thousand dollars on a full annual

basis.

3. Moneys of this account, following appropriation by the legislature,

shall be available to the office of mental health for disbursement to

local governments and not-for-profit operated mental health agencies for

services and expenses of community support and workforce reinvestment.

* NB Repealed March 31, 2027