Bill Text: NY S00948 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes an arts fund to receive contributions for the support of the New York state council on the arts through a personal income tax return check-off; provides that for tax years after January 1, 2016, any individual may elect to contribute to the arts fund by indicating such intent on a tax form.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-26 - PRINT NUMBER 948A [S00948 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00948-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         948--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SERRANO,  DIAZ, DILAN, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER,
          PANEPINTO, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
          to  be  committed  to  the  Committee on Investigations and Government
          Operations -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Investigations  and
          Government  Operations  in  accordance  with  Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to
          gifts for the support of the New York state council on the arts
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  legislature hereby finds and determines that, due to
     2  severe budgetary constraints, the amount of state  funds  available  for
     3  the  support  of the New York state council on the arts has been sharply
     4  diminished over the past few years.  This decrease in support has had  a
     5  devastating  effect  upon  many  of New York's cultural institutions, as
     6  well as many related or dependent businesses and employees. Accordingly,
     7  the legislature hereby finds and determines that taxpayers of the  state
     8  of  New  York  should  have  the  opportunity  to use the New York state
     9  personal income tax form as a mechanism for  making  voluntary  contrib-
    10  utions  for the support of the New York state council on the arts. It is
    11  the intent of the  legislature  that  any  funds  so  contributed  shall
    12  supplement  and  not  offset  or diminish in any way the amount of funds
    13  made available to the New York state council on  the  arts  pursuant  to
    14  annual budget appropriations.
    15    §  2.  The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-e to read as
    16  follows:
    17    § 630-e. Gift to the arts fund. Effective for any tax year  commencing
    18  on or after January first, two thousand sixteen, an individual may elect
    19  to  contribute  to the arts fund created pursuant to section ninety-sev-
    20  en-yyyy of the state finance law for the support of the New  York  state
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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