* § 97-www. Quality child care and protection fund. 1. There is hereby
established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "quality
child care and protection fund".

2. The quality child care and protection fund shall consist of moneys
received by the state pursuant to subdivision eleven of section three
hundred ninety of the social services law and all other moneys
appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or
source.

3. Moneys of the quality child care and protection fund, following
appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the director of the
budget, shall be made available to the commissioner of the office of
children and family services to provide grants to child day care
providers for health and safety purposes, for training of child day care
provider staff and other activities to increase the availability and/or
quality of child care programs.

4. The commissioner of the office of children and family services
shall submit a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate
and the speaker of the assembly on an annual basis commencing on August
thirty-first, two thousand one concerning the implementation of this
section. This report shall include information on the amount of funds
made available to the commissioner of the office of children and family
services and the use of such funds.

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