Section 95-D - [Multiple versions] "Life pass it on trust fund"1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "life pass it on trust fund".2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the provisions of section four hundred four-u 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 commissioner of the department of health shall provide a written report to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the chair of the senate committee on health, the 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 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. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for organ transplant research and education projects approved by the commissioner of health, or to provide grants to not-for-profit corporations in this state which are incorporated for the purpose of increasing and promoting organ and tissue donation awareness provided, however, beginning April first, two thousand fifteen, any revenues received or any monies appropriated, credited or transferred to the fund on and after May first, two thousand fourteen may also be expended to support the maintenance and operation of the donate life registry in accordance with the provisions of section forty-three hundred ten of the public health law.4. Monies 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 monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the end of that fiscal year.N.Y. State Fin. Law § 95-D
Amended by New York Laws 2018, ch. 215,Sec. 2, eff. 1/1/2019.Amended by New York Laws 2014, ch. 60,Sec. A-29, eff. 4/1/2014.