Bill Text: NY S07787 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - signed chap.327 [S07787 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07787-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7787 IN SENATE February 20, 2020 ___________ 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. LBD15405-01-0S. 7787 2 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.