Requires at least $8,500,000 credited to the spinal cord injury research trust fund from the mandatory surcharges and crime victim assistance fees required in certain vehicle and traffic cases.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
9144
IN SENATE
April 30, 2024
___________
Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to money credited to
the spinal cord injury research trust fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 99-f of the state finance law, as
2 amended by chapter 612 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. The fund shall consist of all monies appropriated for its purpose,
5 all monies required by this section or any other provision of law to be
6 paid into or credited to such fund, and monies [in an amount not to
7 exceed] of at least eight million five hundred thousand dollars
8 collected by the mandatory surcharges imposed pursuant to subdivision
9 one of section eighteen hundred nine of the vehicle and traffic law.
10 Nothing contained herein shall prevent the department of health from
11 receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund as
12 defined in this section and depositing them into the fund according to
13 law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14904-01-4
