N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-ssss: Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment fund

* § 97-ssss. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and

treatment 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 "leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research,

education and treatment 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-M and section six hundred thirty-g 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 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 dispersed from the fund and the award process

used for such disbursements;

(ii) recipients of awards from the fund;

(iii) the amount awarded to each recipient;

(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 leukemia, lymphoma

and myeloma research, education and treatment projects. As used in this

section, "leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and

treatment projects" means research, education and treatment projects,

including grants for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education

and treatment, which, pursuant to section twenty-seven hundred

forty-seven of the public health law, are approved by the department of

health. Such grants may include, among others, grants to public and

private hospitals, medical centers, medical schools and other

organizations.

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 § 97-ssss's