Health Care Transformation Fund.

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§ 92-hh. Health care transformation fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "health care transformation fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of moneys paid thereto from (a) contingent reserves redeployed pursuant to section forty-four hundred sixteen of the public health law, (b) moneys transferred to such fund pursuant to law, and (c) contributions, consisting of grants of any money, including grants or other financial assistance from any agency of government or any other source, to be paid into this fund.

3. Moneys in the health care transformation fund shall be kept separate and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance.

4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, moneys of the health care transformation fund shall be available for transfer to any other fund of the state as authorized and directed by the director of the budget to support health care delivery, including for capital investment, debt retirement or restructuring, housing and other social determinants of health, or transitional operating support to health care providers.

5. Within fifteen days after executing or modifying an allocation, transfer, distribution or other use of the health care transformation fund, the commissioner shall provide written notice to the chairs of the senate finance committee, the assembly ways and means committee, the senate and assembly insurance committees, and the senate and assembly health committees. Such notice shall include, but shall not be limited to, information on the amount, date, and purpose of the allocation, transfer, distribution, or other use, and the methodology used to distribute the moneys.

6. The director of the budget shall provide quarterly reports to the chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee on the receipts and distributions of the health care transformation fund, including an itemization of such receipts and disbursements, the historical and projected expenditures, and the projected fund balance.



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