Relates to the New York state ALS research and education fund; qualifies that the commissioner of health shall expend moneys from such fund to the ALS associations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7787
IN SENATE
February 20, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- 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 the New York state
ALS research and education fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 3, 4 and 6 of section 95-i of the state
2 finance law, as added by chapter 290 of the laws of 2018, are amended to
3 read as follows:
4 3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended by the department of health
5 only to provide grants to the Greater New York ALS Association and the
6 ALS Association Upstate New York Chapter, not-for-profit corporations
7 established in this state which are incorporated for the purpose of
8 advancing and financing ALS research and education projects, provided
9 that moneys of the fund shall be expended only in support of the Greater
10 New York ALS Association's ALSA Certified Treatment Centers of Excel-
11 lence located in New York state or otherwise in support of the Greater
12 New York ALS Association's work in New York state.
13 4. On or before the first day of February each year, the comptroller
14 shall certify to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speak-
15 er of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair of
16 the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited by
17 source in the New York state ALS research and education fund during the
18 preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to
19 sections two hundred nine-L and six hundred thirty-f of the tax law and
20 from all other sources, as well as all disbursements from the New York
21 state ALS research and education fund during the preceding calendar
22 year. The [comptroller] commissioner of health shall expend funds in the
23 year in which they were donated to the extent practicable. In the event
24 that any such funds were not expended in the year in which they were
25 donated, the [comptroller] commissioner of health shall provide justi-
26 fication, along with a remedial plan to ensure the timely and effective
27 use of the funds in the annual report to the governor, temporary presi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 dent of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance
2 committee and chair of the assembly ways and means committee.
3 6. Moneys shall be payable from the fund to the Greater New York ALS
4 Association and the ALS Association Upstate New York Chapter, with
5 sixty-five percent of moneys in the fund to be allocated to the Greater
6 New York ALS Association and thirty-five percent of moneys in the fund
7 to be allocated to the ALS Association Upstate New York Chapter on an
8 annual basis, on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers
9 certified and approved by the [comptroller] commissioner of health.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
11 have been in full force and effect on and after October 1, 2018.