Section 97-AAAA. Improving quality of patient care fund

1. There is hereby
  established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comptroller  and  the
  commissioner  of  taxation and finance a special fund to be known as the
  "improving quality of patient care fund".
    2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys received from civil penalties
  assessed  in  actions  commenced  pursuant  to  section  seven   hundred
  forty-one of the labor law.
    3.  Moneys in the improving quality of patient care fund shall be kept
  separately from and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the
  custody of the state comptroller.
    4. Moneys in the account, following appropriation by the  legislature,
  shall  be  expended  by  the  department  of  health  for the purpose of
  improving the direct  treatment  and  care  of  patients  in  facilities
  providing  health  care  services  that are licensed pursuant to article
  twenty-eight or thirty-six of the public health law or which operate and
  provide health care services under the mental hygiene law, the education
  law, or the correction law.