Section 7.15. Programs of the office of mental health

(a)   The   commissioner  shall  plan,  promote,  establish,  develop,
  coordinate, evaluate, and conduct programs and services  of  prevention,
  diagnosis,  examination,  care, treatment, rehabilitation, training, and
  research for the benefit  of  the  mentally  ill.  Such  programs  shall
  include   but   not  be  limited  to  in-patient,  out-patient,  partial
  hospitalization,  day  care,  emergency,   rehabilitative,   and   other
  appropriate  treatments  and  services. He or she shall take all actions
  that are necessary, desirable, or proper to implement  the  purposes  of
  this  chapter  and  to  carry  out  the  purposes  and objectives of the
  department within the amounts made available therefor by  appropriation,
  grant,  gift,  devise,  bequest,  or  allocation  from the mental health
  services fund established under  section  ninety-seven-f  of  the  state
  finance law.
    (b) The activities described in subdivision (a) of this section may be
  undertaken  in  cooperation  and  agreement  with  other  offices of the
  department and with other departments or agencies of the state, local or
  federal government, or with other organizations and individuals.
    (c) The commissioner shall prepare  annually  for  the  governor,  the
  legislature and the state commission on quality of care for the mentally
  disabled a written evaluation report concerning the delivery of care and
  services  in  family  care  homes  and  other  community  residences and
  projected plans for providing and improving such homes  and  residences.
  Such  report concerning family care shall detail efforts to maintain and
  improve the quality of care for the mentally  ill  in  the  family  care
  program including, but not limited to the following:
    1. An evaluation of the procedures implemented by the office to ensure
  full  compliance with existing statutes and the rules and regulations of
  the office pertaining to the family care programs.
    2. A detailed description of the organizational structure developed by
  the  office  to   administer   the   family   care   program   including
  identification  of the responsibility and accountability of office staff
  pertaining to the family care program.
    3. A detailed description of the amounts and sources of funds expended
  annually for the family care program. Such expenditure description shall
  include amounts appropriated by the legislature, allocated and  expended
  for  the  family  care program by facility including, but not limited to
  respite   care,   clothing,   recreation,   personal    allowance    and
  transportation expenditures.
    4.  Identification  of  procedures  implemented  to  ensure that funds
  appropriated by the legislature for the  family  care  program  are  not
  inappropriately directed to other purposes.
    5.  Identification  of  projected  plans for improving the delivery of
  care and services to participants in family care homes.
    On or before March first of each year he shall submit a copy  of  such
  report,  and  such  recommendations  as  he may deem appropriate, to the
  governor, the temporary president of the  senate,  the  speaker  of  the
  assembly,  the  respective  minority leaders of each such house, and the
  chairman of the state commission on quality of  care  for  the  mentally
  disabled.