§ 97-zzz. Cultural education account. 1. There is hereby established
in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of
taxation and finance an account of the miscellaneous special fund to be
known as the cultural education account.

2. The comptroller is authorized and directed to receive for deposit
to the credit of the cultural education account revenues designated for
such deposit by law including those derived from the surcharge
authorized by the third undesignated paragraph of subdivision (a) of
section eight thousand eighteen of the civil practice and law and rules,
subparagraph b of paragraph four of subdivision (a) of section eight
thousand twenty-one of such law, subparagraph b of paragraph eleven of
subdivision (b) of section eight thousand twenty-one of such law, and
subdivision a of section 7-604, subdivision 1 of section 7-614 of the
administrative code of the city of New York.

3. Moneys of this account, following appropriation by the legislature,
shall be available to support the following agencies and programs: (a)
the state education department for services and expenses of the cultural
education program including operating expenses and capital projects and
the New York state summer school of the arts subject to a plan approved
by the commissioner of education and the director of the budget; and (b)
the Nelson A. Rockefeller performing arts center corporation subject to
a plan approved by the director of the budget.