N.Y. State Finance Law § 99-u*2: New York state teen health education fund

* § 99-u. New York state teen health education 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

"New York state teen health education fund".

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

of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section six

hundred thirty-c of the tax 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.

2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the

commissioner of education 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 health, chair of the

assembly health 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:

(i) the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process

used for such disbursements;

(ii) recipients of awards from the fund;

(iii) the amount awarded to each;

(iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and

(v) 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.

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

the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner

of education.

4. The moneys in such fund shall be expended for the purpose of

supplementing educational programs in schools for health and awareness

of issues facing teens today when it comes to their health. Eligible

health programs are those with an established curriculum providing

instruction on alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse prevention, the

causes and problems associated with teen obesity, and for awareness of

the symptoms of teen endometriosis.

* NB There are 2 § 99-u's