N.Y. State Fin. Law § 99-L

Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 553

Section 99-L - [Multiple versions] Assisted living residence quality oversight fund

1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of health a special fund to be known as the "assisted living residence quality oversight fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department of motor vehicles pursuant to section four hundred four-v of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter three hundred three of the laws of two thousand four, all the revenues received by the department of taxation and finance pursuant to sections two hundred nine-K and six hundred thirty-e of the tax law and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.

2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner of the department of education 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, 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. Moneys of such fund shall be available to the department of health for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of article forty-six-B of the public health law. Additionally, five hundred thousand dollars shall be available to the state office for the aging for the long term care ombudsman program for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of article forty-six-B of the public health law.

4. The moneys of the fund shall be paid out on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner of health.

N.Y. State Fin. Law § 99-L

Amended by New York Laws 2017, ch. 174,Sec. 3, eff. 8/21/2017.