NY State Fin L § 97-YY (2021)
2021 New York Laws STF - State Finance Article 6 - Funds of the State 97-YY - Breast Cancer Research and Education Fund.

§ 97-yy. Breast cancer research and education 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  "breast cancer research and education fund".   2.  Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department of taxation and finance, pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section  two hundred  nine-D and section six hundred twenty-seven of the tax law, all moneys collected pursuant to section four hundred four-q of the  vehicle and  traffic  law,  as added by chapter five hundred twenty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source  pursuant to  law.  For each state fiscal year, there shall be appropriated to the fund by the state, in addition  to  all  other  moneys  required  to  be deposited  into  such  fund,  an  amount  equal to the amounts of monies collected and deposited into the fund pursuant to sections  two  hundred nine-D  and  six  hundred  twenty-seven  of the tax law and section four hundred four-q of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter  five hundred  twenty-eight  of  the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and the amounts of moneys received and deposited into the fund from  grants, gifts  and  bequests during the preceding calendar year, as certified by the comptroller. 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.   2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the comptroller shall  certify  to  the  governor,  temporary  president  of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money  deposited in  the  breast  cancer research and education fund during the preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to sections  two hundred  nine-D  and six hundred twenty-seven of the tax law and section four hundred four-q of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by  chapter five  hundred  twenty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and from grants, gifts and bequests.   2-b.  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, 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. Monies of the  fund  shall  be  expended  only  for  breast  cancer research  and  educational  projects.  As  used in this section, "breast cancer research and education projects"  means  scientific  research  or educational  projects  which,  pursuant  to  section  two  thousand four hundred eleven of the public health law, are approved by the  department of health, upon the recommendation of the health research science board.    4.  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.   5.  To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to  the end of that fiscal year.