Bill Text: NY A04481 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides a program to promote leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment and establishes the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment fund; authorizes the commissioner of taxation and finance to create a check-off gift on individual income tax returns for contributions to leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - signed chap.266 [A04481 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04481-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4481 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, ORTIZ, ABBATE, SCHIMMINGER, ENGLEBRIGHT, PERRY, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY, COLTON, GUNTHER, LUPARDO, PEOPLES-STOKES, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to providing for taxpayer gifts for leukemia, lympho- ma and myeloma research, education and treatment and establishing the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 2 27-CCC to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 27-CCC 4 LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA AND MYELOMA RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TREATMENT PROGRAM 5 Section 2747. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and 6 treatment. 7 § 2747. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treat- 8 ment. The commissioner shall establish within the department a program 9 to promote research, education and treatment regarding leukemia, lympho- 10 ma and myeloma. To carry out the purposes of this section, the commis- 11 sioner shall have the following powers and duties: 12 1. to promote research, education and treatment programs designed to 13 reduce or prevent the incidence and severity of leukemia, lymphoma and 14 myeloma; 15 2. to accept and expend any grants, awards or other funds or appropri- 16 ations as may be available for these purposes subject to limitations as 17 to the approval of expenditures and audit as prescribed for state funds 18 by the state finance law; and 19 3. to enter into contracts within the amounts available therefor as 20 may be necessary to implement the provisions of this section. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00108-01-9A. 4481 2 1 § 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 209-M to read as 2 follows: 3 § 209-M. Gift for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education 4 and treatment. Effective for any tax year commencing on or after January 5 first, two thousand twenty, a taxpayer in any taxable year may elect to 6 contribute to the support of the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma 7 research, education and treatment fund. Such contribution shall be in 8 any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of the state tax 9 owed by such taxpayer. The commissioner shall include space on the 10 corporate income tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contrib- 11 ution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all revenues 12 collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the leukemia, 13 lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment fund and shall be 14 used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-seven-ssss of 15 the state finance law. 16 § 3. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-g to read as 17 follows: 18 § 630-g. Gift for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education 19 and treatment. Effective for any tax year commencing on or after Janu- 20 ary first, two thousand twenty, an individual in any taxable year may 21 elect to contribute to the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, 22 education and treatment fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole 23 dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such 24 individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal income 25 tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwith- 26 standing any other provision of law all revenues collected pursuant to 27 this section shall be credited to the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma 28 research, education and treatment fund and used only for those purposes 29 enumerated in section ninety-seven-ssss of the state finance law. 30 § 4. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 97-ssss 31 to read as follows: 32 § 97-ssss. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and 33 treatment fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of 34 the commissioner of taxation and finance and the comptroller, a special 35 fund to be known as the "leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, educa- 36 tion and treatment fund". 37 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department 38 of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section two 39 hundred nine-M and section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law and all 40 other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any 41 other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section 42 shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the 43 purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into 44 the fund according to law. 45 2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the commission- 46 er of health shall provide a written report to the temporary president 47 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate 48 finance committee, the chair of the assembly ways and means committee, 49 the chair of the senate committee on health, the chair of the assembly 50 health committee, the state comptroller and the public. Such report 51 shall include how the monies of the fund were utilized during the 52 preceding calendar year, and shall include: 53 (i) the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process 54 used for such disbursements; 55 (ii) recipients of awards from the fund; 56 (iii) the amount awarded to each recipient;A. 4481 3 1 (iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and 2 (v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti- 3 mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed- 4 ing fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal 5 year. 6 3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for leukemia, lymphoma 7 and myeloma research, education and treatment projects. As used in this 8 section, "leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treat- 9 ment projects" means research, education and treatment projects, includ- 10 ing grants for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and 11 treatment, which, pursuant to section twenty-seven hundred forty-seven 12 of the public health law, are approved by the department of health. 13 Such grants may include, among others, grants to public and private 14 hospitals, medical centers, medical schools and other organizations. 15 4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of 16 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner 17 of health. 18 5. To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure 19 that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the 20 end of that fiscal year. 21 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable 22 years commencing on or after January 1, 2020.
