Bill Text: NY S06028 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Provides a tax check off box on personal income tax return forms for the life pass it on trust fund for gifts for organ and tissue donation outreach and research.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-05 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06028 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06028-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         6028--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     August 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on Investigations and Government Operations in accord-
          ance 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, in relation to providing a  tax  check  off
          box  on personal income tax return forms for the life pass it on trust
          fund
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Part 2 of article 22 of the tax law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 630-e to read as follows:
     3    § 630-e. Gift for organ and tissue  donation  outreach  and  research.
     4  Effective  for  any  tax  year commencing on or after January first, two
     5  thousand seventeen, an individual in  any  taxable  year  may  elect  to
     6  contribute to the life pass it on trust fund.  The contribution shall be
     7  in  any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax
     8  owed by such individual. The commissioner shall  include  space  on  the
     9  personal  income  tax  return to enable a taxpayer to make such contrib-
    10  ution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected
    11  pursuant to this section shall be credited to the life pass it on  trust
    12  fund   and   used   only   for  those  purposes  enumerated  in  section
    13  ninety-five-d of the state finance law, as added by chapter four hundred
    14  fifteen of the laws of two thousand three.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    16  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall apply to
    17  taxable years beginning on or after such date, provided,  however,  that
    18  effective  immediately,  all  actions and procedures with respect to the
    19  proposed adoption, amendment, suspension or repeal of any rule or  regu-
    20  lation  necessary for the timely implementation of this act are directed
    21  and authorized to be made and completed  on  or  before  such  effective
    22  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06589-02-6
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