2023 New York Laws › STF - State Finance › Article 6 - Funds of the State › 99-KK - New York State Community Grants Reinvestment Fund.

§  99-kk.  New York state community grants reinvestment 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 community grants reinvestment fund".
2. Such fund shall consist of all 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 fund shall be governed and administered by the  state  cannabis
advisory board as set out under article two of the cannabis law.
4.  The  moneys  in  such  fund shall be awarded by the state cannabis
advisory board and administered and disbursed by the office of  cannabis
management  and/or  the  urban development corporation to provide grants
for qualified community-based nonprofit organizations and approved local
government entities  for  the  purpose  of  reinvesting  in  communities
disproportionately  affected  by  past  federal and state drug policies.
Such grants shall be used, including but not limited to, to support  job
placement,   job   skills   services,  adult  education,  mental  health
treatment,  substance  use  disorder   treatment,   housing,   financial
literacy,  community  banking,  nutrition  services, services to address
adverse childhood experiences,  afterschool  and  child  care  services,
system  navigation  services,  legal  services  to  address  barriers to
reentry, including, but not limited  to,  providing  representation  and
related   assistance   with   expungement,   vacatur,  substitution  and
resentencing of marihuana-related convictions, and linkages  to  medical
care,  women's  health  services  and  other  community-based supportive
services. The grants from this program  may  also  be  used  to  further
support  the  social and economic equity program created by article four
of the cannabis law and as established by the cannabis control board.
5. On or before the first day of February each  year,  the  office  of
cannabis  management  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 children and families, chair of the assembly
children and families committee, chair of the senate committee on labor,
chair of the assembly labor committee, chair of the senate committee  on
health,  chair  of  the  assembly  health committee, chair of the senate
committee on education, chair of the assembly education  committee,  the
state  comptroller  and  the  public.  Such  report shall detail how the
monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and
shall include:
(a) the amount of money available and 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.
6. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
the  comptroller  on  vouchers  approved  and certified by the office of
cannabis management.