N.Y. State Finance Law § 99-jj: New York state drug treatment and public education fund

§ 99-jj. New York state drug treatment and public education fund. 1.

There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state

comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special fund

to be known as the "New York state drug treatment public education

fund".

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

provisions of section ninety-nine-ii of this article and all other

moneys 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. The moneys in such fund shall be expended to the commissioner of

the office of addiction services and supports and disbursed, in

consultation with the commissioner of the department of health, the

office of mental health, the office of cannabis management and the

commissioner of education for the following purposes:

(a) Reasonable costs incurred, subject to available appropriations, by

the office of addiction services and supports, to administer funds in

accordance with the allowable uses in paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (e)

of this subdivision.

(b) To develop and implement a youth-focused public health education

and prevention campaign, including school-based prevention, early

intervention, and health care services and programs to reduce the risk

of cannabis and other substance use by school-aged children;

(c) To develop and implement a statewide public health campaign

focused on the health effects of cannabis and legal use, including an

ongoing education and prevention campaign that educates the general

public, including parents, consumers and retailers, on the legal use of

cannabis, the importance of preventing youth access, the importance of

safe storage and preventing secondhand cannabis smoke exposure,

information for pregnant or breastfeeding women, and the overconsumption

of edible cannabis products;

(d) To provide substance use disorder treatment programs for youth and

adults, with an emphasis on programs that are culturally and gender

competent, trauma-informed, evidence-based and provide a continuum of

care that includes screening and assessment (substance use disorder as

well as mental health), early intervention, active treatment, family

involvement, case management, overdose prevention, prevention of

communicable diseases related to substance use, relapse management for

substance use and other co-occurring behavioral health disorders,

vocational services, literacy services, parenting classes, family

therapy and counseling services, medication-assisted treatments,

psychiatric medication and psychotherapy; and

(e) To evaluate the programs being funded to determine their

effectiveness.

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

of the office of addiction services and supports 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 alcoholism

and drug abuse, chair of the assembly alcoholism and drug abuse

committee, the state comptroller and the public. Such report shall

detail how the moneys 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 recipient of an award from the fund;

(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.

5. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of

the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner

of addiction services and supports.