(b) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of the court of claims act, where, and to the extent that, an agreement between the state and an employee organization entered into pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law on behalf of officers and employees serving in positions in the professional, scientific and technical services unit so provides, examine, audit and certify for payment any claim submitted and approved by the head of a state department or agency for personal property of an officer or employee damaged or destroyed in the actual performance of official duties without fault or negligence of the officer or employee other than a claim specified and covered by subdivision twelve or twelve-d of this section after March thirty-first, two thousand sixteen and prior to April first, two thousand nineteen. Payment of such claim shall not exceed the sum of three hundred fifty dollars. Where an agreement between the state and such employee organization entered into pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law provides for payment to be made to officers and employees by a state department or agency, such payments for claims not in excess of the amount specified in subdivision three of section one hundred fifteen of this chapter may be made from a petty cash account established pursuant to section one hundred fifteen of this chapter and in the manner prescribed therein and pursuant to regulations of the comptroller. No person submitting a claim under this subdivision shall have any claim for damages to such personal property approved pursuant to the provisions of subdivision four of section five hundred thirty of the labor law or any other applicable provision of law. 12-f. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of the court of claims act, examine, audit and certify for payment of any claim submitted and approved by the head of the state department or agency for personal property of an officer or employee, whose position is designated managerial or confidential pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law, and of civilian state employees of the division of military and naval affairs in the executive department whose positions are not in, or are excluded from representation rights in, any recognized or certified negotiating unit, and of officers and employees excluded from representation rights under article fourteen of the civil service law pursuant to rules and regulations of the public employment relations board, damaged or destroyed in the actual performance of official duties without fault or negligence of the officer or employee other than a claim specified and covered by subdivision twelve or twelve-d of this section after March thirty-first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight. Payment of such claim shall not exceed the sum of three hundred fifty dollars. Such payments for claims not in excess of seventy-five dollars may be made from a petty cash account established pursuant to section one hundred fifteen of this chapter and in the manner prescribed therein and pursuant to regulations of the comptroller. No person submitting a claim under this subdivision shall have any claim for damages to such personal property approved pursuant to the provision of subdivision four of section five hundred thirty of the labor law or any other applicable provision of law. 12-g. Notwithstanding any other provision of the court of claims act or any other law to the contrary, thirty days before the comptroller issues a check for payment to an inmate serving a sentence of imprisonment with the department of corrections and community supervision or to a prisoner confined at a local correctional facility for any reason, including a payment made in satisfaction of any damage award in connection with any lawsuit brought by or on behalf of such inmate or prisoner against the state or any of its employees in federal court or any other court, the comptroller shall give written notice, if required pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law, to the office of victim services that such payment shall be made thirty days after the date of such notice. 13. In any instance in which the claim of a person under the age of eighteen years has been examined, audited, and certified for payment by the comptroller pursuant to subdivisions twelve-a or twelve-b of this section, an application for approval of such payment shall be made to the court of claims or a judge thereof. The procedure to be followed upon such application shall be the same as provided for in the civil practice law and rules, for the settlement or compromise of a claim or cause of action of a person under the age of eighteen years. 14. Make, amend and repeal rules and regulations as he may deem necessary in the performance of the duties imposed upon him by law. 15. Except where provisions for refund are otherwise specifically provided in any other law, general or special, upon the certification of the head of any state department or agency, and after audit and approval by him, refund within three years from the date of payment, any fee or portion of a fee or other moneys paid pursuant to any of the statutes of the state of New York, in any case in which: a. The license, permit or certificate applied for is not issued, or does not take effert or b. the filing or certification requested is not made, or c. the service requested is not rendered, or d. the payment made is in excess of the amount prescribed by statute, or e. the licensee has entered the active armed services of the United States in which event the refund shall be such proportion of the license fee paid as the number of full months remaining unexpired of the license period bears to the total number of months in such period. Such refund shall be paid from moneys appropriated for such purpose or from revenues in the custody of said department or agency, derived from fees collected by said department or agency. 16. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, no change shall be made in the rate or eligibility standards for state employees' travel, meals, lodging, and other expenses for which the state makes payment (either in advance or by reimbursement), without the approval of the director of employee relations. 18. Prepare and publish, no later than January fifteenth in each year, a listing by department, board, commission, division or state agency of all audits made during the previous year with a brief description of the results thereof, together with a listing of all such audits made during the preceding five years without a description. A copy thereof shall be filed with the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee and copies shall be available to any state agency upon request. 19. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, maintain detailed records of all activity commonly known as "journal transfers" relating to any fund or account of the state for which he or she has the duty pursuant to law to audit and maintain accountability, including any supporting documentation relating thereto. 20. On or before April fifteenth of each year, submit an annual report of such activity pursuant to subdivision nineteen of this section to the temporary president of the senate and to the speaker of the assembly.