N.Y. State Finance Law § 99-pp: Background check fund

* § 99-pp. Background check fund. 1. There is hereby established in

the joint custody of the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation

and finance a special fund to be known as the "background check fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the

comptroller, pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred

twenty-eight of the executive law and all other moneys appropriated

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 of the background check fund, following appropriation by

the legislature, shall be allocated for the direct costs associated with

performing background checks pursuant to section two hundred

twenty-eight of the executive law.

4. The state comptroller may invest any moneys in the background check

fund not expended for the purpose of this section as provided by law.

The state comptroller shall credit any interest and income derived from

the deposit and investment of moneys in the background check fund to the

background check fund.

5. (a) Any unexpended and unencumbered moneys remaining in the

background check fund at the end of a fiscal year shall remain in the

background check fund and shall not be credited to any other fund.

(b) To the extent practicable, any such remaining funds shall be used

to reduce the amount of the fee described in subdivision two of section

two hundred twenty-eight of the executive law.

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