Bill Text: NY S01033 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides a tax check off box on personal income tax return forms for gifts for the life pass it on trust fund for gifts for organ and tissue donation outreach and research and provides for certain reporting requirements for such fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-13 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5159B [S01033 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01033-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1033--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
          and Government Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on  Investi-
          gations  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
          the life pass it on trust fund 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 tax law is amended by adding a  new  section  630-f  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  630-f.  Gift  for  organ and tissue donation outreach and research.
     4  Effective for any tax year commencing on or  after  January  first,  two
     5  thousand  nineteen,  an  individual  in  any  taxable  year may elect to
     6  contribute to the life pass it on trust fund.  The contribution shall be
     7  in 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 life pass it on trust
    12  fund  and  used  only  for  those   purposes   enumerated   in   section
    13  ninety-five-d of the state finance law, as added by chapter four hundred
    14  fifteen of the laws of two thousand three.
    15    §  2.   Section 95-d of the state finance law, as added by chapter 415
    16  of the laws of 2003, is amended by adding a new subdivision 2-a to  read
    17  as follows:
    18    2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the commission-
    19  er  of  the  department  of health shall provide a written report to the
    20  temporary president of the senate, the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  chair  of  the  senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly ways
     2  and means committee, the chair of the senate committee  on  health,  the
     3  chair  of  the  assembly health committee, the state comptroller and the
     4  public.  Such  report  shall  include  how  the  monies of the fund were
     5  utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:
     6    (i) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award  process
     7  used for such disbursements;
     8    (ii) recipients of awards from the fund;
     9    (iii) the amount awarded to each;
    10    (iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
    11    (v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
    12  mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed-
    13  ing  fiscal  years,  along with the actual results from the prior fiscal
    14  year.
    15    § 3.  This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    16  ing the date on which it shall have become a  law  and  shall  apply  to
    17  taxable  years  beginning on or after such date, provided, however, that
    18  effective immediately, all actions and procedures with  respect  to  the
    19  proposed  adoption, amendment, suspension or repeal of any rule or regu-
    20  lation necessary for the timely implementation of this act are  directed
    21  and  authorized  to  be  made  and completed on or before such effective
    22  date.