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N.Y. State Fin. Law § 99-rr

Air quality improvement fund

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* § 99-rr. Healthcare stability fund. 1. There is hereby established\nin the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of\ntaxation and finance a special fund to be known as the "healthcare\nstability fund" ("fund").\n 2. The fund shall consist of monies received from the imposition of\nthe centers for medicare and medicaid services-approved MCO provider tax\nestablished pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred seven-ff of the\npublic health law, and all other monies appropriated, credited, or\ntransferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.\n 3. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and subject to\navailable legislative appropriation and approval of the director of the\nbudget, monies of the fund may be available for:\n (a) funding the non-federal share of increased capitation payments to\nmanaged care providers, as defined in section three hundred sixty-four-j\nof the social services law, for the medical assistance program, pursuant\nto a plan developed and approved by the director of the budget;\n (b) funding the non-federal share of the medical assistance program,\nincluding supplemental support for the delivery of health care services\nto medical assistance program enrollees and quality incentive programs;\n (c) reimbursement to the general fund for expenditures incurred in the\nmedical assistance program, including, but not limited to, reimbursement\npursuant to a savings allocation plan established in accordance with\nsection ninety-two of part H of chapter fifty-nine of the laws of two\nthousand eleven, as amended; and\n (d) transfer to the capital projects fund, or any other capital\nprojects fund of the state to support the delivery of health care\nservices.\n 4. Monies disbursed from the fund shall be exempt from the calculation\nof department of health state funds medicaid expenditures under\nsubdivision one of section ninety-two of part H of chapter fifty-nine of\nthe laws of two thousand eleven, as amended.\n 5. Monies in such fund shall be kept separate from and shall not be\ncommingled with any other monies in the custody of the comptroller or\nthe commissioner of taxation and finance. Any monies of the fund not\nrequired for immediate use may, at the discretion of the comptroller, in\nconsultation with the director of the budget, be invested by the\ncomptroller in obligations of the United States or the state. Any income\nearned by the investment of such monies shall be added to and become a\npart of and shall be used for the purposes of such fund.\n 6. The director of the budget shall provide quarterly reports to the\nspeaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the\nchair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways\nand means committee, on the receipts and distributions of the healthcare\nstability fund, including an itemization of such receipts and\ndisbursements, the historical and projected expenditures, and the\nprojected fund balance.\n * NB There are 2 § 99-rr's\n
§ 99-rr. Air quality improvement fund. 1. There is hereby established\nin the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation\nand finance a fund to be known as the "air quality improvement fund".\n 2. Such fund shall consist of revenues received by the state pursuant\nto section 19-0328 of the environmental conservation law and all other\nmoneys, appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other\nfund or source pursuant to law.\n 3. All moneys of the air quality improvement fund, following\nappropriation by the legislature, shall be made available for the\npurposes of reducing air pollution and improving or enhancing air\nquality in affected communities, including but not limited to: (a)\nmeasures related to achieving the national ambient air quality\nstandards, including community level projects to reduce or eliminate air\npollution from stationary and/or mobile sources of air pollution; and\n(b) investments which are consistent with the strategies and community\nemissions reduction programs prepared pursuant to section 75-0115 of the\nenvironmental conservation law. Any moneys expended from the fund shall\nensure that disadvantaged communities, as defined in subdivision five of\nsection 75-0101 of the environmental conservation law, receive overall\nbenefits that approximate the proportion of disadvantaged communities in\nthe applicable federally designated area of nonattainment in New York,\nprovided that such communities shall not receive less than thirty-five\npercent of the benefit of such funds.\n 4. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of\nthe comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner\nof environmental conservation.\n

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