Section 97-YYY. Children and family services quality enhancement fund  


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      There  is  hereby  established  in  the  joint  custody  of  the   state
      comptroller  and  the  commissioner  of  taxation  and finance a special
      revenue fund to be known as the children  and  family  services  quality
      enhancement fund.
        2.  The  children  and  family services quality enhancement fund shall
      consist of moneys received by the state pursuant to subdivision  ten  of
      section  one  hundred  fifty-three-k  of  the  social  services  law and
      subdivision six of section three  hundred  eighty-seven  of  the  social
      services law, moneys donated or given to the state, and all other moneys
      appropriated,  credited  or  transferred  thereto from any other fund or
      source.
        3. Moneys of the children  and  family  services  quality  enhancement
      fund,  following  appropriation by the legislature and allocation by the
      director of the budget, shall be made available to the  commissioner  of
      the  office  of  children and family services for activities to increase
      the availability and/or quality of children and family services programs
      which may include, but not be limited to, staff  recruitment,  retention
      and   training  activities,  research  projects  and  targeted  services
      expansion and/or demonstration projects to test  innovative  models  for
      service  delivery  including  such  areas  as  health, mental health and
      substance abuse services.
        4. The office of children and family services shall submit a report to
      the governor and the legislature by January thirty-first,  two  thousand
      three  and  annually thereafter detailing all expenditures made from the
      children  and  family  services  quality  enhancement  fund  during  the
      previous  year,  the  status  of any research projects and demonstration
      projects funded by  the  quality  enhancement  fund,  and  the  office's
      priorities  for  allocating  funds from the quality enhancement fund for
      the current year.
        * NB Repealed June 30, 2012
        * NB There are 2 § 97-yyy's