* § 89-j. The school bus motorist education fund. 1. There is hereby
established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
commissioner of taxation and finance a fund known as the school bus
motorist education fund.

2. Such fund shall consist of monies received by the state from any
court of the unified court system pursuant to section eighteen hundred
nine of the vehicle and traffic law for violations of section eleven
hundred seventy-four of such law, and all other fines, fees, grants,
bequests or other monies credited, appropriated or transferred thereto
from any other fund or source.

3. (a) Fifty percent of the monies of the fund, following
appropriation by the legislature, shall be made available to the state
comprehensive school bus driver safety training council for the study of
the illegal passing of stopped school buses by motorists, and the
development of proposals to reduce the number of motorists passing
school buses in violation of section eleven hundred seventy-four of the
vehicle and traffic law.

(b) The remaining fifty percent of the monies of such fund shall be
made available to the department of motor vehicles for the design and
implementation, in conjunction with the governor's traffic safety
committee, the departments of education and transportation, the division
of state police, and the state comprehensive school bus driver safety
training council, of a public education program to further educate
motorists of the dangers of passing a school bus in violation of section
eleven hundred seventy-four of the vehicle and traffic law, to reduce
the number of such incidents, and to promote school bus safety.

4. The monies of the fund made available pursuant to paragraph (a) of
subdivision three of this section shall be paid out on the audit and
warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the
commissioner of education. The monies of the fund made available
pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision three of this section shall be
paid out on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers
approved and certified by the commissioner of motor vehicles. At the end
of each year any monies remaining in the fund shall be retained in the
fund and shall not revert to the general fund. The interest and income
earned on money in the fund, after deducting any applicable charges,
shall be credited to the fund.

* NB There are 2 § 89-j's