Bill Text: NY S06964 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to gifts for the support of the New York state council on the arts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-13 - referred to ways and means [S06964 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06964-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6964

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the tax  law  and
          the  state  finance  law  relating to gifts for the support of the New
          York state council on the  arts,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
          numbers  S.  3570  and  A.  7994,  in  relation  to  making  technical
          corrections thereto

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 1 of a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the tax
     2  law  and  the state finance law relating to gifts for the support of the
     3  New York state council on the arts, as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
     4  numbers S. 3570 and A. 7994, is amended to read as follows:
     5    Section  1.  [The legislature hereby finds and determines that, due to
     6  severe budgetary constraints, the amount of state  funds  available  for
     7  the  support  of the New York state council on the arts has been sharply
     8  diminished over the past few years.  This decrease in support has had  a
     9  devastating  effect  upon  many  of New York's cultural institutions, as
    10  well as many related or dependent businesses and employees. Accordingly,
    11  the] The legislature hereby finds and determines that taxpayers  of  the
    12  state  of New York should have the opportunity to use the New York state
    13  personal income tax form as a mechanism for  making  voluntary  contrib-
    14  utions  for the support of the New York state council on the arts. It is
    15  the intent of the  legislature  that  any  funds  so  contributed  shall
    16  supplement  and  not  offset  or diminish in any way the amount of funds
    17  made available to the New York state council on  the  arts  pursuant  to
    18  annual budget appropriations.
    19    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    20  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the  tax  law  and  the
    21  state  finance  law  relating  to  gifts for the support of the New York

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03562-02-9
        S. 6964                             2

     1  state council on the arts, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.
     2  3570 and A. 7994, takes effect.