N.Y. State Finance Law § 99-ss*3: Nursing home worker recruitment and safety fund

* § 99-ss. Nursing home worker recruitment and safety fund. 1. There

is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of

taxation and finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as

the "nursing home worker recruitment and safety fund".

2. Money allocated to the nursing home worker recruitment and safety

fund shall be kept separate and shall not be commingled with any other

funds in the custody of the state comptroller.

3. Such fund shall consist of all fines and civil penalties received

by the department of health, pursuant to the provisions of section

twenty-eight hundred ninety-five-b of the public health law and all

other moneys appropriated, 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. Any interest received by the comptroller on

moneys on deposit in such fund shall be retained in and become part of

such fund.

4. Moneys in such fund shall be expended only to provide grants to

enhance the quality of employment for residential health care facility

employees and assist in the recruitment and safety of residential health

care facility staff.

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

the comptroller on vouchers approved or certified by the commissioner of

health, or by an officer or employee of the department of health

designated by the commissioner.

* NB Effective December 19, 2026

* NB There are 3 § 99-ss's