Substance use disorder education and recovery grants

* § 19.45 Substance use disorder education and recovery grants.

(a) The office shall develop and implement a program which provides grants to organizations engaged in activities which are dedicated to providing education, prevention, treatment or recovery to those suffering from substance use disorders.

(b) On or before the first day of February each year, the state comptroller shall certify to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited in the substance use disorder education and recovery fund, established pursuant to section eighty-nine-j of the state finance law, during the preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to section six hundred twenty-nine-b of the tax law.

(c) On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner of addiction services and supports shall provide a written report to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of the assembly ways and means committee, chair of the senate committee on mental health and developmental disabilities, and chair of the assembly mental health committee. Such report shall include how the monies of the substance use disorder education and recovery fund were utilized during the proceeding calendar year and shall include:

(1) the amount of money dispersed from the fund;

(2) recipients of awards from the fund;

(3) the amount awarded to each recipient; and

(4) the purposes for which such awards were granted.

* NB There are 2 § 19.45's