Bill Text: NY A09699 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to gifts for the support of the New York state council on the arts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-05 - referred to ways and means [A09699 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09699-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9699

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Ways and Means

        AN  ACT  to amend a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the tax law and
          the state finance law relating to gifts for the  support  of  the  New
          York  state  council  on  the  arts,  as proposed in legislative bills
          numbers  S.  3570  and  A.  7994,  in  relation  to  making  technical
          corrections thereto

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 1 of a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the tax
     2  law and the state finance law relating to gifts for the support  of  the
     3  New  York  state  council  on the arts, as proposed in legislative bills
     4  numbers S. 3570 and A. 7994, is amended to read as follows:
     5    Section 1. [The legislature hereby finds and determines that,  due  to
     6  severe  budgetary  constraints,  the amount of state funds available for
     7  the support of the New York state council on the arts has  been  sharply
     8  diminished  over the past few years.  This decrease in support has had a
     9  devastating effect upon many of New  York's  cultural  institutions,  as
    10  well as many related or dependent businesses and employees. Accordingly,
    11  the]  The  legislature hereby finds and determines that taxpayers of the
    12  state of New York should have the opportunity to use the New York  state
    13  personal  income  tax  form as a mechanism for making voluntary contrib-
    14  utions for the support of the New York state council on the arts. It  is
    15  the  intent  of  the  legislature  that  any  funds so contributed shall
    16  supplement and not offset or diminish in any way  the  amount  of  funds
    17  made  available  to  the  New York state council on the arts pursuant to
    18  annual budget appropriations.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    20  manner  as  a  chapter  of the laws of 2019 amending the tax law and the
    21  state finance law relating to gifts for the  support  of  the  New  York
    22  state  council  on the arts, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
    23  3570 and A. 7994, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03562-02-9