Legislation
SECTION 99-SS*3
Nursing home worker recruitment and safety fund
State Finance (STF) CHAPTER 56, ARTICLE 6
* § 99-ss. Nursing home worker recruitment and safety 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 "nursing home worker recruitment and safety fund".
2. Money allocated to the nursing home worker recruitment and safety
fund shall be kept separate and shall not be commingled with any other
funds in the custody of the state comptroller.
3. Such fund shall consist of all fines and civil penalties received
by the department of health, pursuant to the provisions of section
twenty-eight hundred ninety-five-b of the public health 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. Any interest received by the comptroller on
moneys on deposit in such fund shall be retained in and become part of
such fund.
4. Moneys in such fund shall be expended only to provide grants to
enhance the quality of employment for residential health care facility
employees and assist in the recruitment and safety of residential health
care facility staff.
5. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
the comptroller on vouchers approved or certified by the commissioner of
health, or by an officer or employee of the department of health
designated by the commissioner.
* NB There are 3 § 99-ss's
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 "nursing home worker recruitment and safety fund".
2. Money allocated to the nursing home worker recruitment and safety
fund shall be kept separate and shall not be commingled with any other
funds in the custody of the state comptroller.
3. Such fund shall consist of all fines and civil penalties received
by the department of health, pursuant to the provisions of section
twenty-eight hundred ninety-five-b of the public health 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. Any interest received by the comptroller on
moneys on deposit in such fund shall be retained in and become part of
such fund.
4. Moneys in such fund shall be expended only to provide grants to
enhance the quality of employment for residential health care facility
employees and assist in the recruitment and safety of residential health
care facility staff.
5. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
the comptroller on vouchers approved or certified by the commissioner of
health, or by an officer or employee of the department of health
designated by the commissioner.
* NB There are 3 § 99-ss's