N.Y. State Finance Law § 97-yyy: Children and family services quality enhancement fund

* § 97-yyy. Children and family services quality enhancement fund. 1.

There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state

comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special

revenue fund to be known as the children and family services quality

enhancement fund.

2. The children and family services quality enhancement fund shall

consist of moneys received by the state pursuant to subdivision ten of

section one hundred fifty-three-k of the social services law and

subdivision six of section three hundred eighty-seven of the social

services law, moneys donated or given to the state, and all other moneys

appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or

source.

3. Moneys of the children and family services quality enhancement

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 for activities to increase

the availability and/or quality of children and family services programs

which may include, but not be limited to, staff recruitment, retention

and training activities, research projects and targeted services

expansion and/or demonstration projects to test innovative models for

service delivery including such areas as health, mental health and

substance abuse services.

4. The office of children and family services shall submit a report to

the governor and the legislature by January thirty-first, two thousand

three and annually thereafter detailing all expenditures made from the

children and family services quality enhancement fund during the

previous year, the status of any research projects and demonstration

projects funded by the quality enhancement fund, and the office's

priorities for allocating funds from the quality enhancement fund for

the current year.

* NB Repealed June 30, 2027

* NB There are 2 § 97-yyy's