N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-www*2: Quality child care and protection fund

* § 97-www. Quality child care and protection fund. 1. There is hereby

established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the

commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "quality

child care and protection fund".

2. The quality child care and protection fund shall consist of moneys

received by the state pursuant to subdivision eleven of section three

hundred ninety of the social services law and all other moneys

appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or

source.

3. Moneys of the quality child care and protection fund, following

appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the director of the

budget, shall be made available to the commissioner of the office of

children and family services to provide grants to child day care

providers for health and safety purposes, for training of child day care

provider staff and other activities to increase the availability and/or

quality of child care programs.

4. The commissioner of the office of children and family services

shall submit a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate

and the speaker of the assembly on an annual basis commencing on August

thirty-first, two thousand one concerning the implementation of this

section. This report shall include information on the amount of funds

made available to the commissioner of the office of children and family

services and the use of such funds.

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