2023 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
commissioner of the New York  state  department  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 department 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