* § 99-v. Homeless veterans assistance fund. 1. There is hereby
established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and
finance, the New York state director of veterans' services and the
comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "homeless veterans
assistance fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section six
hundred twenty-seven-b of the tax law, and all other moneys
appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or
source pursuant to law. For each state fiscal year, there shall be
appropriated to the fund by the state, in addition to all other moneys
required to be deposited into such fund, an amount equal to the amounts
of moneys collected and deposited into the fund pursuant to section six
hundred twenty-seven-b of the tax law, and the amounts of moneys
received and deposited into the fund from grants, gifts and bequests
during the preceding calendar year, as certified by the comptroller.
Nothing in this section shall prevent the state from soliciting and
receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund as
defined in this section and depositing them into the fund according to
law.

2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the
commissioner of the New York state department of veterans' services
shall provide a written report to the temporary president of the senate,
speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of
the assembly ways and means committee, chair of the senate committee on
veterans, homeland security and military affairs, chair of the assembly
veterans' affairs committee, the state comptroller and the public. Such
report shall include how the monies of the fund were utilized during the
preceding calendar year, and shall include:

(i) the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process
used for such disbursements;

(ii) recipients of awards from the fund;

(iii) the amount awarded to each;

(iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and

(v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include
estimates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and
succeeding fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior
fiscal year.

3. On or before the first day of February of each calendar year, the
comptroller shall certify to the governor, the temporary president of
the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance
committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the
amount of money deposited in the homeless veterans assistance fund
during the preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived
pursuant to section six hundred twenty-seven-b of the tax law, and from
all grants, gifts and bequests.

4. Moneys of the fund shall be expended only for the assistance and
care of homeless veterans, for housing and housing-related expenses, as
determined by the department of veterans' services.

5. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant of
the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the New York state
director of veterans' services. Any interest received by the comptroller
on moneys on deposit in the homeless veterans assistance fund shall be
retained in and become part of such fund.

* NB There are 2 § 99-v's