Bill Text: NY A05689 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for taxpayer gifts for women's cancers education and prevention; establishes the women's cancers education and prevention fund; defines women's cancer to mean and include cervical, endometrial, gestational trophoblastic tumor, ovarian, uterine sarcoma, vaginal, and vulvar.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-28 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A05689 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A05689-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5689--B
Cal. No. 267
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 5, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, ROZIC, ROBINSON, COOK, GUNTHER, ENGLE-
BRIGHT, ABBATE, ROBERTS, OTIS, SCHIMEL, FAHY, AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. ARROYO, BROOK-KRASNY, PERRY, RIVERA, SOLAGES -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law, the tax law and the state finance
law, in relation to providing for taxpayer gifts for women's cancers
education and prevention and establishing the women's cancers educa-
tion and prevention fund
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
3 (J) THE DANGERS OF WOMEN'S CANCERS, INCLUDING WAYS TO PREVENT AND
4 SEVERITY OF SUCH DISEASES. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, WOMEN'S
5 CANCERS SHALL MEAN AND INCLUDE: CERVICAL, ENDOMETRIAL, GESTATIONAL
6 TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR, OVARIAN, UTERINE SARCOMA, VAGINAL, AND VULVAR.
7 S 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 209-I to read as
8 follows:
9 S 209-I. GIFT FOR WOMEN'S CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION. A TAXPAY-
10 ER IN ANY TAXABLE YEAR MAY ELECT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUPPORT OF THE
11 WOMEN'S CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION FUND. SUCH CONTRIBUTION SHALL
12 BE IN ANY WHOLE DOLLAR AMOUNT AND SHALL NOT REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF THE
13 STATE TAX OWED BY SUCH TAXPAYER. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE SPACE ON
14 THE CORPORATE INCOME TAX RETURN TO ENABLE A TAXPAYER TO MAKE SUCH
15 CONTRIBUTION. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, ALL REVENUES
16 COLLECTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE CREDITED TO THE WOMEN'S
17 CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION FUND AND SHALL BE USED ONLY FOR THOSE
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 PURPOSES ENUMERATED IN SECTION NINETY-SEVEN-LLLL OF THE STATE FINANCE
2 LAW.
3 S 3. Part 2 of article 22 of the tax law is amended by adding a new
4 section 630-d to read as follows:
5 S 630-D. GIFT FOR WOMEN'S CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION. AN INDI-
6 VIDUAL IN ANY TAXABLE YEAR MAY ELECT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN'S
7 CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION FUND. SUCH CONTRIBUTION SHALL BE IN ANY
8 WHOLE DOLLAR AMOUNT AND SHALL NOT REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF STATE TAX OWED BY
9 SUCH INDIVIDUAL. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE SPACE ON THE PERSONAL
10 INCOME TAX RETURN TO ENABLE A TAXPAYER TO MAKE SUCH CONTRIBUTION.
11 NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW ALL REVENUES COLLECTED PURSU-
12 ANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE CREDITED TO THE WOMEN'S CANCERS EDUCATION
13 AND PREVENTION FUND AND USED ONLY FOR THOSE PURPOSES ENUMERATED IN
14 SECTION NINETY-SEVEN-LLLL OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW.
15 S 4. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 97-llll
16 to read as follows:
17 S 97-LLLL. WOMEN'S CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION FUND. 1. THERE IS
18 HEREBY ESTABLISHED IN THE JOINT CUSTODY OF THE COMMISSIONER OF TAXATION
19 AND FINANCE AND THE COMPTROLLER, A SPECIAL FUND TO BE KNOWN AS THE
20 "WOMEN'S CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION FUND".
21 2. SUCH FUND SHALL CONSIST OF ALL REVENUES RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT
22 OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION TWO
23 HUNDRED NINE-I AND SECTION SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-D OF THE TAX LAW, AND ALL
24 OTHER MONEYS APPROPRIATED, CREDITED OR TRANSFERRED THERETO FROM ANY
25 OTHER FUND OR SOURCE PURSUANT TO LAW. NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION
26 SHALL PREVENT THE STATE FROM RECEIVING GRANTS, GIFTS OR BEQUESTS FOR THE
27 PURPOSES OF THE FUND AS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION AND DEPOSITING THEM INTO
28 THE FUND ACCORDING TO LAW.
29 3. MONIES OF THE FUND SHALL BE EXPENDED ONLY FOR WOMEN'S CANCERS
30 EDUCATION AND PREVENTION PROJECTS. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "WOMEN'S
31 CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION PROJECTS" MEANS EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS,
32 INCLUDING GRANTS FOR WOMEN'S CANCERS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS,
33 WHICH ARE APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
34 4. MONIES SHALL BE PAYABLE FROM THE FUND ON THE AUDIT AND WARRANT OF
35 THE COMPTROLLER ON VOUCHERS APPROVED AND CERTIFIED BY THE COMMISSIONER
36 OF HEALTH.
37 5. TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH SHALL ENSURE
38 THAT ALL MONIES RECEIVED DURING A FISCAL YEAR ARE EXPENDED PRIOR TO THE
39 END OF THAT FISCAL YEAR.
40 S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
