2023 New York Laws › STF - State Finance › Article 6 - Funds of the State › 97-QQQQ - Cystic Fibrosis Research and Education Fund.

§  97-qqqq.  Cystic  fibrosis research and education fund. 1. There is
hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of  taxation
and  finance  and  the  comptroller  a  fund  to be known as the "cystic
fibrosis research and education fund".
2. Such fund shall  consist  of  all  revenues  received  pursuant  to
section  four  hundred  four-bb  of the vehicle and traffic 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 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 cystic fibrosis research and education fund during the  preceding
calendar  year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to section four
hundred four-bb of the vehicle and traffic law and  from  grants,  gifts
and bequests.
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 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  moneys  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  of  the  fund  shall  be expended only for cystic fibrosis
research projects and cystic fibrosis education projects approved by the
department of health in New York state. As used  in  this  section,  the
term  "cystic  fibrosis  research  project"  means  scientific  research
approved by the department of health into the causes and/or treatment of
cystic fibrosis, and the term "cystic fibrosis education project"  means
a  project  approved  by the department of health aimed toward educating
the general public about the causes, symptoms, and treatment  of  cystic
fibrosis.
4.  Moneys  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  commissioner
of health.
5.  To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure
that all moneys received during a fiscal year are expended prior to  the
end of that fiscal year.