Bill Text: NY A06474 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes space on the business franchise and personal income tax forms to make a gift for home delivered meals for seniors; creates the senior wellness in nutrition fund.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-17 - REFERRED TO AGING [A06474 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06474-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6474--B
                                                                Cal. No. 245
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 25, 2015
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        Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A.  GOODELL  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on Ways and
          Means -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee -- advanced to a third read-
          ing,  amended  and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order
          of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law,  in  relation  to
          establishing  a gift for home delivered meals for seniors on the busi-
          ness franchise and personal income  tax  forms  and  establishing  the
          senior wellness in nutrition 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  209-J  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  209-J. Gift for home delivered meals for seniors. Effective for any
     4  tax year commencing on or after January first, two thousand  sixteen,  a
     5  taxpayer  in  any taxable year may elect to contribute to the support of
     6  the senior wellness in nutrition fund for the purpose of providing  home
     7  delivered  meals  to  seniors.  Such  contribution shall be in any whole
     8  dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by  such
     9  taxpayer. The commissioner shall include space on the business franchise
    10  income  tax  return, entitled "Meals on Wheels for Seniors", to enable a
    11  taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwithstanding any other  provision
    12  of law, all revenues collected pursuant to this section shall be credit-
    13  ed  to  the senior wellness in nutrition fund and shall only be used for
    14  those purposes enumerated in section ninety-one-g of the  state  finance
    15  law.
    16    §  2.  The tax law is amended by adding a new section 626-a to read as
    17  follows:
    18    § 626-a. Gift for home delivered meals for seniors. Effective for  any
    19  tax  year commencing on or after January first, two thousand sixteen, an
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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