§ 97-c. Training and education program on occupational safety and
health fund. 1. There is hereby established in the custody of the state
comptroller the training and education program on occupational safety
and health fund.

2. Such fund shall consist of moneys collected from special
compensation assessments collected pursuant to the provisions of section
one hundred fifty-one of the workers' compensation law.

3. Moneys of the fund shall be available to the New York state
occupational safety and health hazard abatement board for purposes of
carrying out the provisions of article twenty-nine of the labor law and
to the department of labor for worker protection activities under its
jurisdiction.

4. The moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant
of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the chairperson
of the board or his or her designee or by the commissioner of labor or
his or her designee.

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, no
moneys shall be available from the fund until a certificate of
allocation and a schedule of amounts to be available therefor shall have
been issued by the director of the budget, and a copy of such
certificate filed with the comptroller. Such certificate may be amended
from time to time by the director of the budget and a copy of each such
amendment shall be filed with the comptroller.