Bill Text: NY A02456 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the inclusion of a check off box on personal income tax return forms for the purpose of making a gift to the William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family trust fund for child abuse prevention.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-23 - signed chap.387 [A02456 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02456-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2456
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend the tax law and the social services law, in relation  to
          providing  for the inclusion of a check off box on personal income tax
          return forms for the purpose of making a gift to the William  B.  Hoyt
          Memorial children and family trust fund
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a  new  section  630-g  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  630-g.  Gift  for  the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family
     4  trust fund. Effective for any tax year commencing on  or  after  January
     5  first,  two  thousand  twenty-one, an individual in any taxable year may
     6  elect to contribute to the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and  family
     7  trust  fund established pursuant to section four hundred eighty-one-f of
     8  the social services law. Such contribution shall be in any whole  dollar
     9  amount  and  shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such indi-
    10  vidual. The tax commission shall include space on  the  personal  income
    11  tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwithstand-
    12  ing  any  other provision of law all revenues collected pursuant to this
    13  section shall be credited to the William B.  Hoyt Memorial children  and
    14  family trust fund and used only for those purposes enumerated in article
    15  ten-A of the social services law.
    16    §  2.  Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 8 of section 481-e of the
    17  social services law, as amended by chapter 57 of the laws of  1985,  are
    18  amended to read as follows:
    19    (e)  a  description of the nature and quality of services provided and
    20  the impact upon the populations and communities served and their  poten-
    21  tial for being replicated elsewhere; [and]
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (f)  a description of how the moneys of the fund collected pursuant to
     2  section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law  were  utilized  during  the
     3  preceding calendar year, including information concerning:
     4    (i)  the  amount of money disbursed from the fund and the distribution
     5  process used for such disbursements;
     6    (ii) recipients of the expenses from the fund;
     7    (iii) the amount allotted to each;
     8    (iv) the purposes for which such distributions were granted; and
     9    (v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
    10  mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed-
    11  ing fiscal years; and
    12    (g) all such other matters as may be necessary to inform the  governor
    13  and  the  legislature regarding the implementation and evaluation of the
    14  effectiveness of programs covered by this section  and  the  success  of
    15  such programs in accomplishing the intent of the legislature.
    16    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
    17  taxable years commencing after January 1, 2021.