§ 97-ooo. Department of corrections and community supervision asset
forfeiture account. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody
of the state comptroller and the department of corrections and community
supervision a special account within the miscellaneous special revenue
fund to be known as the department of corrections and community
supervision asset forfeiture account. Such account shall consist,
subject to necessary federal approval, of moneys received by the
department of corrections and community supervision through the
equitable sharing that is authorized in federal forfeiture actions.

2. The moneys of the account shall be available for purposes of
developing additional resources such as, but not limited to, obtaining
equipment, establishing training programs, or accessing existing
technology or databases.

3. The commissioner of the department of corrections and community
supervision shall report to the commissioner of the division of criminal
justice services, the director of the budget, the chairman of the senate
finance committee and the chairman of the assembly ways and means
committee by October first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight and every six
months thereafter, on the source and amounts of moneys in the account.
Such report shall describe the amount of moneys received by the federal
government and the department of corrections and community supervision
from the joint activities of the department and federal law enforcement
agencies, the law enforcement activities which led to such forfeiture
and the value of the assets so seized.

4. The moneys of such account shall be made available on the audit and
warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the
commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision.