2023 New York Laws › STF - State Finance › Article 6 - Funds of the State › 89-E - Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Fund.

§  89-e.  Alzheimer's  disease  assistance  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
"Alzheimer's disease 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-nine 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  monies
collected  and  deposited  into the fund pursuant to section six hundred
twenty-nine of the tax  law  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  Alzheimer's research fund during the preceding calendar year as
the  result  of  revenue  derived  pursuant  to  section   six   hundred
twenty-nine of the tax law.
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.  Moneys  in  the  Alzheimer's disease assistance fund shall be kept
separate and shall not be  commingled  with  any  other  moneys  in  the
custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance and the comptroller.
4.  The  moneys  in  such fund shall be expended only for the purposes
spelled out in paragraph (b) of subdivision six of section  twenty-seven
hundred one of the public health law.
5.  All  payments  form  such  fund shall be made by the department of
taxation and finance after audit  and  warrant  of  the  comptroller  on
vouchers approved by the commissioner of health.