* § 97-www. Quality child care and protection 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 "quality child care and protection fund".

2. The quality child care and protection fund shall consist of moneys received by the state pursuant to subdivision eleven of section three hundred ninety of the social services law and all other moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source.

3. Moneys of the quality child care and protection 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 to provide grants to child day care providers for health and safety purposes, for training of child day care provider staff and other activities to increase the availability and/or quality of child care programs.

4. The commissioner of the office of children and family services shall submit a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on an annual basis commencing on August thirty-first, two thousand one concerning the implementation of this section. This report shall include information on the amount of funds made available to the commissioner of the office of children and family services and the use of such funds.

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