N.Y. State Finance Law § 99-bb*5: School-based health centers fund

* § 99-bb. School-based health centers fund. 1. There is hereby

established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner

of health, a special fund to be known as the "school-based health

centers fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the

provisions of 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 herein 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. 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, 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 dispersed 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.

4. Monies of the fund shall be expended to fund expansion of medical

services at existing school-based health centers or to establish new

school-based health centers.

5. 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.

6. Amounts expended for school-based health centers pursuant to this

section shall not affect the amount that would otherwise be appropriated

for school-based health centers under any other provision of law.

7. Services performed by school-based health centers available for

moneys from this fund shall include, but not be limited to:

a. comprehensive physical health and mental health assessments;

b. diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses;

c. vision, hearing, dental, nutritional, and tuberculosis screenings;

d. routine management of chronic diseases;

e. health education;

f. mental health counseling and referrals;

g. immunizations;

h. working papers and sports physicals; and

i. population-based primary prevention.

Services shall be provided on-site by a multi-disciplinary team

consisting of a mid-level practitioner, a mental health counselor, and a

medical assistant in consultation with a physician. The centers shall

also provide access to health care twenty-four hours per day, seven days

per week.

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