N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-rrrr: Lupus education and prevention fund

§ 97-rrrr. Lupus education and prevention 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 "lupus

education and prevention fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department

of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section two

hundred nine-L and section six hundred thirty-f 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.

3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for lupus education and

prevention projects. As used in this section, "lupus education and

prevention projects" means educational projects, including grants for

lupus education and prevention programs, which are approved by the

department of health.

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.

6. On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner

of health 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:

(a) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process

used for such disbursements;

(b) recipients of awards from the fund;

(c) the amount awarded to each;

(d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and

(e) 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.