New York Laws
Article 7 - Office of Mental Health
7.47 - Mental Illness Anti-Stigma Grants.

(a) The office shall develop and implement a program which provides
grants to organizations engaged in activities which eliminate the stigma
attached to mental illness and those with mental health needs.
(b) On or before the first day of February each year, the 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 mental illness anti-stigma fund during the preceding calendar
year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to section six hundred
twenty-nine-a of the tax law.
(c) On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner
of mental health 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 fund were utilized during the preceding
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; and
(4) the purposes for which such awards were granted.