Bill Text: NY A07451 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the New York state vaccination awareness campaign and directs the department of health to establish and contract with a consultant to promote and maintain the New York state vaccination awareness campaign; establishes the gift for the New York state vaccination awareness campaign and allows a check-off space on the personal income tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution; makes related provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A07451 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07451-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7451 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 3, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to a New York state vaccination awareness campaign; and to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to providing a tax check off box on personal income tax return forms for the New York state vaccination awareness campaign and certain reporting requirements The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2509 to read as follows: 3 § 2509. New York state vaccination awareness campaign. 1. The depart- 4 ment shall establish, and shall contract with a consultant to promote 5 and maintain the New York state vaccination awareness campaign consist- 6 ent with the immunization schedule established by the centers for 7 disease control and prevention and the advisory committee on immuniza- 8 tion practices. 9 2. The commissioner may enter into a multi-year contract for the oper- 10 ation and promotion of the New York state vaccination awareness campaign 11 subject to such terms and conditions as may be contained within such 12 contract with a not-for-profit organization that has experience working 13 with New York state organizations that have expertise in immunization 14 and vaccination promotional campaigns, and is affiliated with the immun- 15 ization and vaccination community throughout the state. The contractor 16 may subcontract as needed for the effective performance of the contract. 17 All such subcontractors and the terms of such subcontracts shall be 18 subject to approval by the commissioner. 19 3. The contractor shall make a report, including but not limited to, 20 the following: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11159-10-9A. 7451 2 1 (a) the annual dollar amount of voluntary contributions received by 2 the contractor for the purposes of maintaining the New York state immun- 3 ization educational and promotional campaigns and initiatives; 4 (b) a description of the promotional campaigns and initiatives imple- 5 mented during the year; and 6 (c) accounting statements of expenditures for the purposes of main- 7 taining the promotional campaigns and initiatives. 8 4. (a) For the period April first, two thousand twenty through March 9 thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one, payments to the contractor shall 10 be paid by the department. 11 (b) For the period beginning April first, two thousand twenty-one and 12 thereafter, payments to the contractor shall be paid by the department 13 from funds available for these purposes, including, but not limited to, 14 the funds deposited into the New York state vaccination awareness 15 campaign fund pursuant to section ninety-five-j of the state finance 16 law. 17 (c) In addition, the contractor may receive and use voluntary contrib- 18 utions. 19 § 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-g to read as 20 follows: 21 § 630-g. Gift for the New York state vaccination awareness campaign. 22 Effective for any tax year commencing on or after January first, two 23 thousand twenty, an individual in any taxable year may elect to contrib- 24 ute to the New York state vaccination awareness campaign fund. The 25 contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce 26 the amount of state tax owed by such individual. The commissioner shall 27 include space on the personal income tax return to enable a taxpayer to 28 make such contribution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law all 29 revenues collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the New 30 York state vaccination awareness campaign fund and used only for those 31 purposes enumerated in section ninety-five-j of the state finance law. 32 § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 95-j to 33 read as follows: 34 § 95-j. New York state vaccination awareness campaign fund. 1. There 35 is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxa- 36 tion and finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the 37 "New York state vaccination awareness campaign fund". 38 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the 39 provisions of section twenty-five hundred nine of the public health law 40 and section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law, all revenues received 41 pursuant to appropriations by the legislature, and all moneys appropri- 42 ated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source 43 pursuant to law. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and 44 warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the 45 commissioner of health. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent 46 the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of 47 the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund 48 according to law. Any interest received by the comptroller on moneys on 49 deposit in such fund shall be retained in and become part of such fund. 50 3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended only to provide grants to the 51 New York state vaccination awareness campaign for purposes of promoting 52 not-for-profit corporations established in this state which are incorpo- 53 rated for the purpose of advancing and financing New York state vaccina- 54 tion awareness and the immunization schedule established by the centers 55 for disease control and prevention and the advisory committee on immuni- 56 zation practices.A. 7451 3 1 4. On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner 2 of the department of health shall provide a written report to the tempo- 3 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of 4 the senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly ways and means 5 committee, the chair of the senate committee on health, the chair of the 6 assembly health committee, the state comptroller and the public. Such 7 report shall include how the monies of the fund were utilized during the 8 preceding calendar year, and shall include: 9 (i) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process 10 used for such disbursements; 11 (ii) recipients of awards from the fund; 12 (iii) the amount awarded to each; 13 (iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and 14 (v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti- 15 mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed- 16 ing fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal 17 year. 18 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 19 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to 20 taxable years beginning on or after such date. Effective immediately, 21 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- 22 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 23 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
