* § 97-yyy. Children and family services quality enhancement fund. 1.
There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state
comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special
revenue fund to be known as the children and family services quality
enhancement fund.

2. The children and family services quality enhancement fund shall
consist of moneys received by the state pursuant to subdivision ten of
section one hundred fifty-three-k of the social services law and
subdivision six of section three hundred eighty-seven of the social
services law, moneys donated or given to the state, and all other moneys
appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or
source.

3. Moneys of the children and family services quality enhancement
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 for activities to increase
the availability and/or quality of children and family services programs
which may include, but not be limited to, staff recruitment, retention
and training activities, research projects and targeted services
expansion and/or demonstration projects to test innovative models for
service delivery including such areas as health, mental health and
substance abuse services.

4. The office of children and family services shall submit a report to
the governor and the legislature by January thirty-first, two thousand
three and annually thereafter detailing all expenditures made from the
children and family services quality enhancement fund during the
previous year, the status of any research projects and demonstration
projects funded by the quality enhancement fund, and the office's
priorities for allocating funds from the quality enhancement fund for
the current year.

* NB Repealed June 30, 2027

* NB There are 2 § 97-yyy's