Bill Text: NY S06212 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all funds received by the state as the result of a settlement or a judgement in litigation against opioid manufacturers, distributors, consultants or resellers shall be deposited into the chemical dependence service fund, and that such funds shall not supplant or replace existing state funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S06212 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06212-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6212 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 15, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation to requiring funds from opioid settlements to be used for the develop- ment of new services and supports The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 63-e 2 to read as follows: 3 § 63-e. Disposition of opioid manufacturer settlement funds. Notwith- 4 standing any other provision of law to the contrary, all funds received 5 by the state as the result of a settlement or a judgment in litigation 6 against opioid manufacturers, distributors, consultants or resellers 7 shall be deposited into the chemical dependence service fund established 8 pursuant to the provisions of section ninety-seven-w of the state 9 finance law. 10 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 97-w of the state finance law, as 11 amended by chapter 398 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as 12 follows: 13 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated for the purpose 14 of such fund, all moneys transferred to such fund pursuant to law, 15 contributions consisting of promises or grants of any money or property 16 of any kind or value, or any other thing of value, including grants or 17 other financial assistance from any agency of government and all moneys 18 required by the provisions of this section or any other law to be paid 19 into or credited to this fund. Notwithstanding any provision of law to 20 the contrary, no moneys transferred or deposited into the fund pursuant 21 to the provisions of section sixty-three-e of the executive law shall be 22 used to supplant or replace current state funding for existing services 23 and supports, provided pursuant to the provisions of this section, and 24 such moneys shall be used exclusively for the purpose of funding new 25 services and supports pursuant to the provisions of this section. 26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10289-01-1
