2023 New York Laws › STF - State Finance › Article 6 - Funds of the State › 95-E*2 - New York State Autism Awareness and Research Fund.

* §  95-e.  The  New York state autism awareness and research 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 New York state autism awareness and research fund.
2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received  pursuant  to  the
provisions  of  section  four  hundred four-v of the vehicle and traffic
law, as added by chapter three hundred one of the laws of  two  thousand
four,  all revenues received pursuant to section six hundred thirty-d of
the tax law and all other moneys appropriated, 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.
2-a.   On  or  before  the  first  day  of  February  each  year,  the
commissioner of the office for people  with  developmental  disabilities
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 disbursed 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. (a) Monies of the fund shall be expended only for autism  awareness
projects  or  autism research projects approved by the office for people
with developmental disabilities in New  York  state  provided,  however,
that no more than ten percent of monies from such fund shall be expended
on the aggregate number of autism research projects approved in a fiscal
year.
(b)  As used in this section, the term "autism research project" means
scientific research approved by the office for people with developmental
disabilities into the causes and/or treatment of autism,  and  the  term
"autism  awareness  project"  means a project approved by the office for
people  with  developmental  disabilities  aimed  toward  educating  the
general public about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of autism.
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 the office for people with developmental disabilities.
5.  To  the  extent  practicable,  the  commissioner of the office for
people with developmental disabilities  shall  ensure  that  all  monies
received  during  a  fiscal  year  are expended prior to the end of that
fiscal year.
* NB There are 2 § 95-e's