* § 99-ll. New York state council on the arts cultural programs fund.
1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state
comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance a special fund to
be known as the "New York state council on the arts cultural program
fund".
2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the state,
pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-four-c of the tax law and
all other moneys appropriated thereto from any other fund or source
pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the
state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the
fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund
according to law.
3. On or before the first day of February two thousand twenty-four,
the executive director of the New York state council on the arts shall
provide a written report to the temporary president of the senate, the
speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate finance committee, the
chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the chair of the senate
committee on health, the chair of the assembly health committee, the
state comptroller and the public. Such report shall include how the
monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and
shall include:
(a) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process
used for such disbursements;
(b) recipients of awards from the fund;
(c) the amount awarded to each;
(d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
(e) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include
estimates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and
succeeding fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior
fiscal year.
4. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the executive
director of the New York state council on the arts.
5. The moneys in such fund shall be expended for the purpose of
supplementing art and cultural programs for secondary and elementary
children, including programs that increase access to art and cultural
programs and events for children in underserved communities.
* NB Repealed January 1, 2024