§ 81. Veterans' home assistance 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 "veterans' home
assistance fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of sections two
hundred nine-J and six hundred twenty-seven-c of the tax law, and all
other moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any
other fund or source pursuant to law. For each state fiscal year, there
shall be appropriated to the fund by the state, in addition to all other
moneys required to be deposited into such fund, an amount equal to the
aggregate of the amounts of moneys collected and deposited into the
veterans' home assistance fund pursuant to sections two hundred nine-J
and six hundred twenty-seven-c of the tax law and all other moneys
received and deposited into such fund from grants, gifts and bequests
during the immediately preceding calendar year. Nothing in this section
shall prevent the state from soliciting and 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.

3. On or before the first of February each year, the comptroller shall
certify to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance committee and
the chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of monies
deposited into the veterans' home assistance fund during the immediately
preceding calendar year as the result of revenues collected pursuant to
sections two hundred nine-J and six hundred twenty-seven-c of the tax
law, and from all grants, gifts and bequests to such fund.

4. Moneys of the fund shall be expended only for the care and
maintenance of veterans' homes operated by agencies of the state, and
shall be disbursed equally each state fiscal year to each of the
following five veterans' homes: the state home for veterans and their
dependents at Oxford, the state home for veterans in the city of New
York, the state home for veterans at Batavia, the state home for
veterans at Montrose and the Long Island state veterans home at Stony
Brook university.

5. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
of health, for veterans' homes operated by the department of health, and
by the chancellor of the state university of New York, for the veterans'
home operated by the state university of New York.

6. Moneys in the veterans' home assistance fund shall be kept separate
and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the
commissioner of taxation and finance and/or the comptroller.

7. On or before the first of February each year, the commissioner of
health shall provide a written report to the temporary president of the
senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee,
chair of the assembly ways and means committee, chair of the senate
committee on health, 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:

(a) the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process
used for such disbursements;

(b) the recipients of awards from the fund;

(c) the amount awarded to each;

(d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and

(e) 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.