97-AAAA - Improving quality of patient care fund.
§ 97-aaaa. Improving quality of patient care fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a special fund to be known as the "improving quality of patient care fund". 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys received from civil penalties assessed in actions commenced pursuant to section seven hundred forty-one of the labor law. 3. Moneys in the improving quality of patient care fund shall be kept separately from and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the state comptroller. 4. Moneys in the account, following appropriation by the legislature, shall be expended by the department of health for the purpose of improving the direct treatment and care of patients in facilities providing health care services that are licensed pursuant to article twenty-eight or thirty-six of the public health law or which operate and provide health care services under the mental hygiene law, the education law, or the correction law.