Bill Text: NY A06553 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes gifts, on personal income tax returns, for substance use disorder education and recovery; establishes the substance use disorder education and recovery fund for the receipt and expenditure of monies from such gifts; directs the office of addiction services and supports to provide grants to organizations engaged in activities dedicated to providing education, prevention, treatment or recovery to those suffering from substance use disorders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-08 - substituted by s4086 [A06553 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A06553-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6553 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 19, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing a gift for substance use disorder education and recovery on personal income tax returns; to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the substance use disorder education and recovery fund; and to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing grants for substance use disorder education and recovery 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 629-b to 2 read as follows: 3 § 629-b. Gift for substance use disorder education and recovery. 4 Effective for any tax year commencing on or after January first, two 5 thousand twenty-one, an individual in any taxable year may elect to 6 contribute to the substance use disorder education and recovery fund. 7 Such contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and shall not 8 reduce the amount of state tax owed by such individual. The commission- 9 er shall include space on the personal income tax return to enable a 10 taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwithstanding any other provision 11 of law all revenues collected pursuant to this section shall be credited 12 to the substance use disorder education and recovery fund and used only 13 for those purposes enumerated in section eighty-nine-j of the state 14 finance law. 15 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 89-j to 16 read as follows: 17 § 89-j. Substance use disorder education and recovery fund. 1. There 18 is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxa- 19 tion and finance and the state comptroller, a special fund to be known 20 as the "substance use disorder education and recovery fund". EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08337-01-1A. 6553 2 1 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the 2 provisions of section six hundred twenty-nine-b of the tax law, all 3 revenues received pursuant to appropriations by the legislature, and all 4 moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund 5 or source pursuant to law. No moneys credited to such fund pursuant to 6 section six hundred twenty-nine-b of the tax law shall be deemed to 7 authorize the reduction of the amount of monies otherwise appropriated 8 by the state for the purpose of substance use disorder education and 9 recovery. 10 3. The monies of the fund shall be made available to the office of 11 addiction services and supports for the purpose of providing grants to 12 organizations dedicated to providing education, prevention, treatment or 13 recovery to those suffering from substance use disorders pursuant to 14 section 19.45 of the mental hygiene law. 15 4. The monies of the fund shall be paid out on the audit and warrant 16 of the state comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the 17 commissioner of addiction services and supports, or by an officer or 18 employee of the office of addiction services and supports designated by 19 such commissioner. 20 § 3. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 19.45 21 to read as follows: 22 § 19.45 Substance use disorder education and recovery grants. 23 (a) The office shall develop and implement a program which provides 24 grants to organizations engaged in activities which are dedicated to 25 providing education, prevention, treatment or recovery to those suffer- 26 ing from substance use disorders. 27 (b) On or before the first day of February each year, the state comp- 28 troller shall certify to the governor, temporary president of the 29 senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee 30 and chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money 31 deposited in the substance use disorder education and recovery fund, 32 established pursuant to section eighty-nine-j of the state finance law, 33 during the preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived 34 pursuant to section six hundred twenty-nine-b of the tax law. 35 (c) On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner 36 of addiction services and supports shall provide a written report to the 37 temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the 38 senate finance committee, chair of the assembly ways and means commit- 39 tee, chair of the senate committee on mental health and developmental 40 disabilities, and chair of the assembly mental health committee. Such 41 report shall include how the monies of the substance use disorder educa- 42 tion and recovery fund were utilized during the proceeding calendar 43 year and shall include: 44 (1) the amount of money dispersed from the fund; 45 (2) recipients of awards from the fund; 46 (3) the amount awarded to each recipient; and 47 (4) the purposes for which such awards were granted. 48 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
