Bill Text: NY A01209 | 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 13-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A01209 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01209-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1209
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  HUNTER,  COOK,  MOSLEY,  WILLIAMS,  WRIGHT,
          JEAN-PIERRE, CROUCH, LAWRENCE, RA, BICHOTTE, HYNDMAN, ARROYO, PALMESA-
          NO, RAMOS, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  SIMON,  THIELE  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education
        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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04048-01-9
        A. 1209                             2
     1  moneys on deposit in the New York farm to school and school garden  fund
     2  shall be retained in and become part of such fund.
     3    §  2.  The tax law is amended by adding a new section 625-a to read as
     4  follows:
     5    § 625-a. Gift for the New York farm to school and school garden  fund.
     6  An  individual  in  any  taxable year may elect to contribute to the New
     7  York farm to school and school garden  fund  to  help  establish  school
     8  gardens  and  purchase  equipment  and  educational materials to promote
     9  students' consumption of local products. The contribution  shall  be  in
    10  any  whole  dollar  amount  and shall not reduce the amount of state tax
    11  owed by such individual. The commissioner shall  include  space  on  the
    12  personal  income  tax  return to enable a taxpayer to make such contrib-
    13  ution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected
    14  pursuant to this section shall be credited  to  the  New  York  farm  to
    15  school  and  school garden fund and used only for those purposes enumer-
    16  ated in section ninety-seven-ff of the state finance law.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.