Bill Text: NY S00971 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Creates a personal income tax check-off box for donations to the school-based health centers fund; creates the school-based health centers fund; specifies the use for which moneys of the fund may be expended.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-21 - PRINT NUMBER 971A [S00971 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00971-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 971--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, LATIMER -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi- gations and Government Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT 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 gifts to the school-based health centers 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-e to 2 read as follows: 3 § 630-e. Gift for school-based health centers. Effective for any tax 4 year commencing on or after January first, two thousand seventeen, an 5 individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the school- 6 based health centers fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole 7 dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such 8 individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal income 9 tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. The commis- 10 sioner shall also ensure that a description of a school-based health 11 center is included within the tax form preparation instruction booklet. 12 Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected pursu- 13 ant to this section shall be credited to the school-based health centers 14 fund and used only for those purposes enumerated in section eighty-one 15 of the state finance law. 16 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 81 to 17 read as follows: 18 § 81. School-based health centers fund. 1. There is hereby established 19 in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of health, 20 a special fund to be known as the "school-based health centers fund". EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02300-02-6
