STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9632 IN ASSEMBLY March 26, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to money credited to the spinal cord injury research trust fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 99-f of the state finance law, as 2 amended by chapter 612 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. The fund shall consist of all monies appropriated for its purpose, 5 all monies required by this section or any other provision of law to be 6 paid into or credited to such fund, and monies [in an amount not to 7 exceed] of at least eight million five hundred thousand dollars 8 collected by the mandatory surcharges imposed pursuant to subdivision 9 one of section eighteen hundred nine of the vehicle and traffic law. 10 Nothing contained herein shall prevent the department of health from 11 receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund as 12 defined in this section and depositing them into the fund according to 13 law. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14904-01-4