Bill Text: NY A02660 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a personal income tax check-off box for donations to the school-based health centers fund; creates the school-based health centers fund; specifies the use for which moneys of the fund may be expended.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-10-01 - signed chap.293 [A02660 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02660-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2660
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. JOYNER,
          LAVINE, PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
          Ways and Means
        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
          gifts to the school-based health centers fund
          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-e  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  630-e.  Gift for school-based health centers. Effective for any tax
     4  year commencing on or after January first,  two  thousand  eighteen,  an
     5  individual  in  any  taxable year may elect to contribute to the school-
     6  based health centers fund. Such  contribution  shall  be  in  any  whole
     7  dollar  amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such
     8  individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal  income
     9  tax  return  to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. The commis-
    10  sioner shall also ensure that a description  of  a  school-based  health
    11  center  is included within the tax form preparation instruction booklet.
    12  Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected pursu-
    13  ant to this section shall be credited to the school-based health centers
    14  fund and used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-nine-
    15  aa of the state finance law.
    16    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-aa to
    17  read as follows:
    18    § 99-aa. School-based health centers fund. 1. There is  hereby  estab-
    19  lished  in  the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of
    20  health, a special fund to be known as the "school-based  health  centers
    21  fund".
    22    2.  Such  fund  shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
    23  provisions of section six hundred thirty-e of the tax law, and all other
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred  thereto  from  any  other
     2  fund  or  source pursuant to law. Nothing contained herein shall prevent
     3  the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the  purposes  of
     4  the  fund  as  defined in this section and depositing them into the fund
     5  according to law.
     6    3. Monies of the fund shall be expended to fund expansion  of  medical
     7  services  at  existing  school-based  health centers or to establish new
     8  school-based health centers.
     9    4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and  warrant  of
    10  the  comptroller  on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
    11  of health.
    12    5. Amounts expended for school-based health centers pursuant  to  this
    13  section shall not affect the amount that would otherwise be appropriated
    14  for school-based health centers under any other provision of law.
    15    6.  Services  performed  by  school-based health centers available for
    16  moneys from this fund shall include, but not be limited to:
    17    a. comprehensive physical health and mental health assessments;
    18    b. diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses;
    19    c. vision, hearing, dental, nutritional, and tuberculosis screenings;
    20    d. routine management of chronic diseases;
    21    e. health education;
    22    f. mental health counseling and referrals;
    23    g. immunizations;
    24    h. working papers and sports physicals; and
    25    i. population-based primary prevention.
    26    Services shall  be  provided  on-site  by  a  multi-disciplinary  team
    27  consisting of a mid-level practitioner, a mental health counselor, and a
    28  medical  assistant  in  consultation with a physician. The centers shall
    29  also provide access to health care twenty-four hours per day, seven days
    30  per week.
    31    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.