Bill Text: NY A04572 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes a tax check-off for gifts to food banks; establishes the gifts to food banks fund; authorizes and directs the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to distribute grants to local not-for-profit corporations for the distribution of food to persons in need.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - signed chap.375 [A04572 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04572-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4572
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. MAGEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK,
          MORELLE, PERRY -- 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
          authorizing a tax check-off for gifts to food banks
          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 625-a to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 625-a. Gifts to food banks. Effective for any taxable year  commenc-
     4  ing  on  or after January first, two thousand eighteen, an individual in
     5  any taxable year may elect to contribute to  the  state  gifts  to  food
     6  banks  fund for financial support for regional food banks. Such contrib-
     7  ution shall be in any whole dollar  amount  and  shall  not  reduce  the
     8  amount  of  state  tax  owed  by such individual. The commissioner shall
     9  include space on the personal income tax return to enable a taxpayer  to
    10  make  such  contribution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law all
    11  revenues collected pursuant to this section shall  be  credited  to  the
    12  gifts  to food banks fund and used only for those purposes enumerated in
    13  section eighty-two of the state finance law.
    14    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new  section  82  to
    15  read as follows:
    16    §  82. Gifts to food banks fund. 1. There is hereby established in the
    17  sole custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance a special  fund
    18  to  be known as the "gifts to food banks fund". Monies in the fund shall
    19  be kept separate from and not commingled with other funds  held  in  the
    20  sole custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance.
    21    2.  Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
    22  of taxation and finance  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section  six
    23  hundred  twenty-five-a  of the tax law and all other money appropriated,
    24  credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source  pursuant
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08794-01-7
        A. 4572                             2
     1  to  law.  Nothing in this section shall prevent the state from receiving
     2  grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the  fund  as  defined  in
     3  this section and depositing them into the fund according to law.
     4    3.  Monies  of the fund shall, after appropriation by the legislature,
     5  be made available to the office of temporary and  disability  assistance
     6  for  grants  to regional food banks, organized to serve specific regions
     7  of the state, that generally collect and redistribute food donations  to
     8  organizations  serving persons in need. Monies shall be payable from the
     9  fund by the commissioner of taxation and finance on vouchers approved by
    10  the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance. The commission-
    11  er of temporary and disability assistance  shall  promulgate  rules  and
    12  regulations necessary for the distribution of such grants.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.