NY State Fin L § 99-V-2 (2021)
2021 New York Laws STF - State Finance Article 6 - Funds of the State 99-V*2 - Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund.

* §  99-v.  Homeless  veterans  assistance  fund.  1.  There is hereby established in the joint custody of the  commissioner  of  taxation  and finance,  the  New  York  state  director  of veterans' services and the comptroller, a special fund  to  be  known  as  the  "homeless  veterans assistance 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   twenty-seven-b   of   the   tax  law,  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 moneys collected and deposited into the fund pursuant to section  six hundred  twenty-seven-b  of  the  tax  law,  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 in this section shall prevent  the  state  from  soliciting  and 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 director of the  New  York  state  division  of  veterans'  services 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  veterans, homeland  security and military affairs, chair of the assembly veterans' affairs 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. On or before the first day of February of each calendar  year,  the comptroller  shall  certify  to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and  means  committee,  the amount  of  money  deposited  in  the  homeless veterans assistance fund during the preceding calendar year as  the  result  of  revenue  derived pursuant  to section six hundred twenty-seven-b of the tax law, and from all grants, gifts and bequests.   4. Moneys of the fund shall be expended only for  the  assistance  and care  of homeless veterans, for housing and housing-related expenses, as determined by the division of veterans' services.   5. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit  and  warrant  of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the New York state director of veterans' services. Any interest received by the comptroller on  moneys  on deposit in the homeless veterans assistance fund shall be retained in and become part of such fund.   * NB There are 2 § 99-v's