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                                   7787
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             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:

   Section  1.  Subdivisions  3,  4  and  6  of section 95-i of the state
 finance law, as added by chapter 290 of the laws of 2018, are amended to
 read as follows:
   3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended BY THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH
 only  to  provide grants to the Greater New York ALS Association and the
 ALS Association Upstate New York  Chapter,  not-for-profit  corporations
 established  in  this  state  which  are incorporated for the purpose of
 advancing and financing ALS research and  education  projects,  provided
 that moneys of the fund shall be expended only in support of the Greater
 New  York  ALS  Association's ALSA Certified Treatment Centers of Excel-
 lence located in New York state or otherwise in support of  the  Greater
 New York ALS Association's work in New York state.
   4.  On  or before the first day of February each year, the comptroller
 shall certify to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speak-
 er of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and  chair  of
 the  assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited by
 source in the New York state ALS research and education fund during  the
 preceding  calendar  year  as  the result of revenue derived pursuant to
 sections two hundred nine-L and six hundred thirty-f of the tax law  and
 from  all  other sources, as well as all disbursements from the New York
 state ALS research and education  fund  during  the  preceding  calendar
 year. The [comptroller] COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH shall expend funds in the
 year  in which they were donated to the extent practicable. In the event
 that any such funds were not expended in the year  in  which  they  were
 donated,  the  [comptroller] COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH shall provide justi-
 fication, along with a remedial plan to ensure the timely and  effective
 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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 dent of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance
 committee and chair of the assembly ways and means committee.
   6.  Moneys  shall be payable from the fund to the Greater New York ALS
 Association and the ALS  Association  Upstate  New  York  Chapter,  with
 sixty-five  percent of moneys in the fund to be allocated to the Greater
 New York ALS Association and thirty-five percent of moneys in  the  fund
 to  be  allocated  to the ALS Association Upstate New York Chapter on an
 annual basis, on the audit and warrant of the  comptroller  on  vouchers
 CERTIFIED AND approved by the [comptroller] COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 have been in full force and effect on and after October 1, 2018.