Section 97-Q. New York state emergency medical services training account

1.
  There is hereby established in the custody of the comptroller, a special
  fund  to  be  known  as  the  "New York state emergency medical services
  training account".
    2. The account shall  consist  of  all  moneys  appropriated  for  its
  purpose,  all moneys transferred to such account pursuant to law and all
  moneys required by the provisions of this section or any other law to be
  paid into or credited to such account, including all moneys received  by
  the  account  or  donated  to  it.  Moneys  in the account shall be kept
  separate and shall not be commingled with  any  other  moneys  otherwise
  appropriated or received except as hereby provided.
    3.  Moneys  of  the account, when allocated, shall be available to the
  department of  health  for  the  purpose  of  funding  the  training  of
  emergency  medical  services personnel, and funding as shall be provided
  by appropriation for  the  state  emergency  medical  services  council,
  regional emergency medical services councils, emergency medical services
  program  agencies or other emergency medical services training programs,
  in order to carry out the purposes of articles thirty  and  thirty-A  of
  the public health law.
    4.  Not  less than fifty percent of the monies of the account shall be
  expended for the direct costs of providing  emergency  medical  services
  training at the local level.  The legislature shall annually appropriate
  from  the  remaining  available  monies, funding for the state emergency
  medical  services  council,  the  regional  emergency  medical  services
  councils,  the  emergency  medical  services  program  agencies  and the
  department of health in order to carry  out  the  purposes  of  articles
  thirty  and  thirty-A of the public health law. At the end of any fiscal
  year, any funds not encumbered for these purposes shall  be  reallocated
  for the costs of training advanced life support personnel.
    5.  Nothing  contained herein shall prevent the commissioner of health
  or the comptroller from receiving grants,  gifts  or  bequests  for  the
  purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
  the account according to law.