§ 97-Q — New York state emergency medical services training account

New York § 97-Q

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law STF: State Finance
• Art. 6: Funds of the State

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§ 97-q. New York state emergency medical services training account. 1.\nThere is hereby established in the custody of the comptroller, a special\nfund to be known as the "New York state emergency medical services\ntraining account".\n 2. The account shall consist of all moneys appropriated for its\npurpose, all moneys transferred to such account pursuant to law and all\nmoneys required by the provisions of this section or any other law to be\npaid into or credited to such account, including all moneys received by\nthe account or donated to it. Moneys in the account shall be kept\nseparate and shall not be commingled with any other moneys otherwise\nappropriated or received except as hereby provided.\n 3. Moneys of the account, when allocated, shall be available to the\ndepartment of health for the purpose of funding the training of\nemergency medical services personnel, and funding as shall be provided\nby appropriation for the state emergency medical services council,\nregional emergency medical services councils, emergency medical services\nprogram agencies or other emergency medical services training programs,\nin order to carry out the purposes of articles thirty and thirty-A of\nthe public health law.\n 4. Not less than fifty percent of the monies of the account shall be\nexpended for the direct costs of providing emergency medical services\ntraining at the local level. The legislature shall annually appropriate\nfrom the remaining available monies, funding for the state emergency\nmedical services council, the regional emergency medical services\ncouncils, the emergency medical services program agencies and the\ndepartment of health in order to carry out the purposes of articles\nthirty and thirty-A of the public health law. At the end of any fiscal\nyear, any funds not encumbered for these purposes shall be reallocated\nfor the costs of training advanced life support personnel.\n 5. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the commissioner of health\nor the comptroller from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the\npurposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into\nthe account according to law.\n