Bill Text: NY S03546 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates the rescued animals spay and neuter fund; authorizes the department of taxation and finance to place a check-off box on income tax returns for taxpayers to contribute money to the fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-02 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S03546 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03546-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3546--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 12, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment 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
          the rescued animals spay and neuter 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 rescued animals protection. Effective  for  any  tax
     4  year  commencing  on  or  after  January  first, two thousand sixteen, a
     5  taxpayer in any taxable year may elect  to  contribute  to  the  rescued
     6  animals  spay  and  neuter fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole
     7  dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by  such
     8  taxpayer.  The  commissioner shall include space on the corporate income
     9  tax return to enable a taxpayer to make  such  contribution.    Notwith-
    10  standing  any other provision of law, all revenues collected pursuant to
    11  this section shall be credited to the rescued animals  spay  and  neuter
    12  fund  and  shall  be  used only for those purposes enumerated in section
    13  ninety-five-i of the state finance law.
    14    § 2. Part 2 of article 22 of the tax law is amended by  adding  a  new
    15  section 630-e to read as follows:
    16    §  630-e.   Gift for rescued animals protection. Effective for any tax
    17  year commencing on or after January  first,  two  thousand  sixteen,  an
    18  individual  in  any  taxable year may elect to contribute to the rescued
    19  animals spay and neuter fund. Such contribution shall be  in  any  whole
    20  dollar  amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such
    21  individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal  income
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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