§ 95-b. The New York state "drive out diabetes research and education
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 New York state "drive out diabetes research and
education fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
provisions of section four hundred four-s of the vehicle and traffic law
and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from
any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained herein 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.

3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for diabetes research and
education projects. As used in this section, "diabetes research and
education projects" means scientific research or educational projects
which, pursuant to article twenty-seven-H of the public health law as
redesignated by chapter five hundred eighty-four of the laws of nineteen
hundred eighty-eight, are approved by the department of health.

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 health.

5. To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure
that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the
end of that fiscal year.