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                                    947
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALSH, SIMPSON, K. BROWN, E. BROWN, BLANKENBUSH,
   TAGUE, MANKTELOW, SLATER, MAHER, HAWLEY, ANGELINO, McDONOUGH, TAPIA --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the  role  of  the
   commissioner  of  veterans'  services in regards to the veterans' home
   assistance fund and the military family relief fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  5  and 7 of section 81 of the state finance
 law, subdivision 5 as amended by section 1 of part J of  chapter  59  of
 the  laws  of 2017 and subdivision 7 as added by chapter 432 of the laws
 of 2016, are amended to read as follows:
   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] VETERANS' SERVICES, 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.
   7. On or before the first of February each year, the  commissioner  of
 [health] VETERANS' SERVICES shall provide a written report to the tempo-
 rary  president  of  the  senate,  speaker of the assembly, chair of the
 senate finance committee, chair of the assembly ways and  means  commit-
 tee,  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;

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   (d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
   (e) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
 mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed-
 ing  fiscal  years,  along with the actual results from the prior fiscal
 year.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 89-i of the state finance law, as  added
 by chapter 374 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   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 [taxation and finance] VETERANS' SERVICES.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.