N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-q: New York state emergency medical services training account

§ 97-q. New York state emergency medical services training account. 1.

There is hereby established in the custody of the comptroller, a special

fund to be known as the "New York state emergency medical services

training account".

2. The account shall consist of all moneys appropriated for its

purpose, all moneys transferred to such account pursuant to law and all

moneys required by the provisions of this section or any other law to be

paid into or credited to such account, including all moneys received by

the account or donated to it. Moneys in the account shall be kept

separate and shall not be commingled with any other moneys otherwise

appropriated or received except as hereby provided.

3. Moneys of the account, when allocated, shall be available to the

department of health for the purpose of funding the training of

emergency medical services personnel, and funding as shall be provided

by appropriation for the state emergency medical services council,

regional emergency medical services councils, emergency medical services

program agencies or other emergency medical services training programs,

in order to carry out the purposes of articles thirty and thirty-A of

the public health law.

4. Not less than fifty percent of the monies of the account shall be

expended for the direct costs of providing emergency medical services

training at the local level. The legislature shall annually appropriate

from the remaining available monies, funding for the state emergency

medical services council, the regional emergency medical services

councils, the emergency medical services program agencies and the

department of health in order to carry out the purposes of articles

thirty and thirty-A of the public health law. At the end of any fiscal

year, any funds not encumbered for these purposes shall be reallocated

for the costs of training advanced life support personnel.

5. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the commissioner of health

or the comptroller from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the

purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into

the account according to law.