Bill Text: NY S06833 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to establishing the "police officer protection fund" for the purpose of retrofitting officer patrol vehicles with bullet-proof glass.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S06833 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06833-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6833 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE July 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the tax law, in relation to establishing the police officer protection fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The commissioner of the division of criminal justice 2 services shall establish and implement a program to retrofit all patrol 3 vehicles of the New York police department, and thereafter all patrol 4 vehicles of the New York state police, with bullet-proof glass within 5 five years of the effective date of this act. Funding for such program 6 shall be drawn from the police officer protection fund established 7 pursuant to section 99-bb of the state finance law. 8 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-bb to 9 read as follows: 10 § 99-bb. Police officer protection fund. 1. A special fund to be known 11 as the "police officer protection fund" is hereby established in the 12 custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and 13 finance. 14 2. The fund shall consist of all monies transferred to such fund 15 pursuant to law, all monies required by any provision of law to be paid 16 into or credited to the fund, all monies from gifts pursuant to section 17 six hundred thirty-e of the tax law and any interest earnings which may 18 accrue from the investment of monies in the fund. Nothing contained 19 herein shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests 20 for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing 21 them into the fund according to law. 22 3. Monies of the fund, when allocated, shall be available to the divi- 23 sion of criminal justice services for the purpose of establishing and 24 implementing a program to retrofit all patrol vehicles of the New York EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07731-02-7S. 6833 2 1 police department, and thereafter all patrol vehicles of the New York 2 state police, with bullet-proof glass. 3 4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of 4 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner 5 of criminal justice services. 6 § 3. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-e to read as 7 follows: 8 § 630-e. Gift for the police officer protection fund. Effective for 9 any tax year commencing on or after January first, two thousand eigh- 10 teen, an individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the 11 police officer protection fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole 12 dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such 13 individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal income 14 tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwith- 15 standing any other provision of law all revenues collected pursuant to 16 this section shall be credited to police officer protection fund and 17 used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-nine-bb of the 18 state finance law. 19 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
