Bill Text: NY S07828 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the gun research safety fund; monies of the fund shall be expended to the department of health and the state university of New York for gun research safety; the department of health and the state university of New York shall provide grants for the purpose of advancing and financing gun research safety; makes an appropriation therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-01 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S07828 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07828-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7828
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 1, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  establishing  the
          gun research safety fund; and making an appropriation therefor
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 86
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 86. Gun research safety fund. 1. There is hereby established in  the
     4  custody  of the state comptroller a special fund to be known as the "gun
     5  research safety fund".
     6    2. The sources of funds shall consist of all moneys  collected  there-
     7  for,  or  moneys  credited, appropriated or transferred thereto from any
     8  other fund or source pursuant to law, or any other moneys made available
     9  for the purposes of the fund.
    10    3. Monies of the fund shall be expended to the  department  of  health
    11  and  the  state  university  of  New  York  for gun research safety. The
    12  department of health and the state university of New York shall  provide
    13  grants for the purpose of advancing and financing gun research safety.
    14    4.  Monies  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
    15  the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  commissioner
    16  of health by the comptroller.
    17    §  2.  The  commissioner  of  health  and  the chancellor of the state
    18  university of New York shall establish regulations for the criteria  for
    19  eligibility for grants under section 86 of the state finance law.
    20    §  3. The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000), or so much thereof
    21  as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the gun  research  safety
    22  fund as established pursuant to section 86 of the state finance law from
    23  any  moneys  in  the state treasury in the general fund to the credit of
    24  the account not otherwise appropriated for services and expenses of  the
    25  account  for  the  purposes  of carrying out the provisions of this act.
    26  Such moneys shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the comptroller
    27  on vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner of health  in  the
    28  manner prescribed by law.
    29    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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