N.Y. MHY Law § 7.47
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Mental illness anti-stigma grants
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§ 7.47 Mental illness anti-stigma grants.\n (a) The office shall develop and implement a program which provides\ngrants to organizations engaged in activities which eliminate the stigma\nattached to mental illness and those with mental health needs.\n (b) On or before the first day of February each year, the comptroller\nshall certify to the governor, temporary president of the senate,\nspeaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair\nof the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited\nin the mental illness anti-stigma fund during the preceding calendar\nyear as the result of revenue derived pursuant to section six hundred\ntwenty-nine-a of the tax law.\n (c) On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner\nof mental health shall provide a written report to the temporary\npresident of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate\nfinance committee, chair of the assembly ways and means committee, chair\nof the senate committee on mental health and developmental disabilities,\nand chair of the assembly mental health committee. Such report shall\ninclude how the monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding\ncalendar year and shall include:\n (1) the amount of money dispersed from the fund;\n (2) recipients of awards from the fund;\n (3) the amount awarded to each; and\n (4) the purposes for which such awards were granted.\n
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