Bill Text: NY A06779 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the bullet-proof vests for officers fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A06779 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06779-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6779

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend the state finance law and the tax law, in relation to
          establishing the bullet-proof vests for officers fund

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  state finance law is amended by adding a new section
     2  99-ii to read as follows:
     3    § 99-ii. Bullet-proof vests for officers fund. 1. A special fund to be
     4  known as the "bullet-proof vests for officers  fund"  is  hereby  estab-
     5  lished  in  the custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of
     6  taxation and finance.
     7    2. The fund shall consist of  all  monies  transferred  to  such  fund
     8  pursuant  to law, all monies required by any provision of law to be paid
     9  into or credited to the fund, all monies from gifts pursuant to  section
    10  six  hundred thirty-i of the tax law and any interest earnings which may
    11  accrue from the investment of monies  in  the  fund.  Nothing  contained
    12  herein  shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests
    13  for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section  and  depositing
    14  them in the fund according to law.
    15    3. Monies of the fund, when allocated, shall be available to the divi-
    16  sion  of  criminal  justice services for the purpose of providing police
    17  officers and canines serving in canine units with bullet-proof vests for
    18  use in the line of duty. Bullet-proof vests shall be distributed at  the
    19  discretion of the commissioner of criminal justice services, pursuant to
    20  guidelines  established  by such commissioner for statewide distribution
    21  of such bullet-proof vests.
    22    4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
    23  the  comptroller  on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
    24  of criminal justice services.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03853-01-1
        A. 6779                             2

     1    § 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-i to  read  as
     2  follows:
     3    § 630-i.  Gift for the bullet-proof vests for officers fund. Effective
     4  for  any  tax  year  commencing  on or after January first, two thousand
     5  twenty-two, an individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to
     6  the bullet-proof vests for officers fund.  Such contribution shall be in
     7  any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the  amount  of  state  tax
     8  owed  by  such  individual.  The commissioner shall include space on the
     9  personal income tax return to enable a taxpayer to  make  such  contrib-
    10  ution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected
    11  pursuant to this section shall be credited to the bullet-proof vests for
    12  officers  fund  and  used  only for those purposes enumerated in section
    13  ninety-nine-ii of the state finance law.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.