2023 New York Laws › STF - State Finance › Article 6 - Funds of the State › 99-JJ - New York State Drug Treatment and Public Education Fund.

§  99-jj.  New York state drug treatment and public education fund. 1.
There  is  hereby  established  in  the  joint  custody  of  the   state
comptroller  and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special fund
to be known as the "New  York  state  drug  treatment  public  education
fund".
2.  Such  fund  shall  consist  of  revenues  received pursuant to the
provisions of section ninety-nine-ii  of  this  article  and  all  other
moneys  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.
3.  The  moneys  in such fund shall be expended to the commissioner of
the  office  of  addiction  services  and  supports  and  disbursed,  in
consultation  with  the  commissioner  of  the department of health, the
office of mental health, the  office  of  cannabis  management  and  the
commissioner of education for the following purposes:
(a) Reasonable costs incurred, subject to available appropriations, by
the  office  of  addiction services and supports, to administer funds in
accordance with the allowable uses in paragraphs (b), (c), (d)  and  (e)
of this subdivision.
(b)  To  develop and implement a youth-focused public health education
and  prevention  campaign,  including  school-based  prevention,   early
intervention,  and  health care services and programs to reduce the risk
of cannabis and other substance use by school-aged children;
(c) To develop  and  implement  a  statewide  public  health  campaign
focused  on  the  health effects of cannabis and legal use, including an
ongoing education and prevention  campaign  that  educates  the  general
public,  including parents, consumers and retailers, on the legal use of
cannabis, the importance of preventing youth access, the  importance  of
safe   storage   and  preventing  secondhand  cannabis  smoke  exposure,
information for pregnant or breastfeeding women, and the overconsumption
of edible cannabis products;
(d) To provide substance use disorder treatment programs for youth and
adults, with an emphasis on programs  that  are  culturally  and  gender
competent,  trauma-informed,  evidence-based  and provide a continuum of
care that includes screening and assessment (substance use  disorder  as
well  as  mental  health),  early intervention, active treatment, family
involvement,  case  management,  overdose  prevention,   prevention   of
communicable  diseases  related to substance use, relapse management for
substance  use  and  other  co-occurring  behavioral  health  disorders,
vocational   services,  literacy  services,  parenting  classes,  family
therapy  and  counseling   services,   medication-assisted   treatments,
psychiatric medication and psychotherapy; and
(e)   To  evaluate  the  programs  being  funded  to  determine  their
effectiveness.
4. On or before the first day of February each year, the  commissioner
of the office of addiction services and supports 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 alcoholism
and drug  abuse,  chair  of  the  assembly  alcoholism  and  drug  abuse
committee,  the  state  comptroller  and  the  public. Such report shall
detail how the moneys of the fund were  utilized  during  the  preceding
calendar year, and shall include:
(a)  the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process
used for such disbursements;
(b) recipients of awards from the fund;
(c) the amount awarded to each recipient of an award from the fund;
(d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
(e)  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.
5. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
the  comptroller  on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
of addiction services and supports.