Bill Text: NY S03804 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the creation of the New York farm to school and school garden fund; allows individuals to make a gift on their personal tax form for such fund; such fund will be used to establish school gardens and purchase equipment and educational materials to promote students' consumption of local products conducted in cooperation with the department of agriculture and markets.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-02 - referred to education [S03804 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03804-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3804
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. MAY, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the tax law,  in  relation  to
          establishing the New York farm to school and school garden 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  97-ff to read as follows:
     3    §  97-ff.  New York farm to school and school garden fund. 1. There is
     4  hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
     5  commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "New York
     6  farm to school and school garden fund".
     7    2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the  department
     8  of  taxation  and  finance,  pursuant  to  the provisions of section six
     9  hundred twenty-five-a of the tax law, and all other moneys appropriated,
    10  credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source  pursuant
    11  to  law. Nothing in this section shall prevent the state from soliciting
    12  and receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund  as
    13  defined  in  this section and depositing them into the fund according to
    14  law.
    15    3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended for the purposes of establish-
    16  ing school gardens and purchasing equipment and educational materials to
    17  promote students' consumption of local products conducted in cooperation
    18  with the department of agriculture and markets. Such department shall be
    19  authorized to create further criteria and  limits  on  such  funding  if
    20  necessary. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant
    21  of  the  state  comptroller  on vouchers approved by the commissioner of
    22  agriculture and markets. Any interest received  by  the  comptroller  on
    23  moneys  on deposit in the New York farm to school and school garden fund
    24  shall be retained in and become part of such fund.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04048-01-9
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     1    § 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 625-a to  read  as
     2  follows:
     3    §  625-a. Gift for the New York farm to school and school garden fund.
     4  An individual in any taxable year may elect to  contribute  to  the  New
     5  York  farm  to  school  and  school garden fund to help establish school
     6  gardens and purchase equipment  and  educational  materials  to  promote
     7  students'  consumption  of  local products. The contribution shall be in
     8  any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the  amount  of  state  tax
     9  owed  by  such  individual.  The commissioner shall include space on the
    10  personal income tax return to enable a taxpayer to  make  such  contrib-
    11  ution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected
    12  pursuant  to  this  section  shall  be  credited to the New York farm to
    13  school and school garden fund and used only for those  purposes  enumer-
    14  ated in section ninety-seven-ff of the state finance law.
    15    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.