Bill Text: NY S06632 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the abortion access fund and allows for individuals to designate a gift to the fund on their personal income tax returns.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE [S06632 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06632-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6632 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE July 17, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to allowing taxpayers to make a gift to the abortion access fund on their personal income tax returns 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 630-g to 2 read as follows: 3 § 630-g. Gift to the abortion access fund. Effective for any tax year 4 commencing on or after January first, two thousand twenty-one, an indi- 5 vidual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the abortion 6 access fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and 7 shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such individual. The 8 commissioner shall include space on the personal income tax return to 9 enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. The commissioner shall also 10 ensure that a description of the abortion access fund is included within 11 the tax form preparation instruction booklet. Notwithstanding any other 12 provision of law, all revenues collected pursuant to this section shall 13 be credited to the abortion access fund and shall be used only for those 14 purposes enumerated in section ninety-nine-hh of the state finance law. 15 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-hh to 16 read as follows: 17 § 99-hh. Abortion access fund. 1. There is hereby established in the 18 joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of health, a 19 special fund to be known as the "abortion access fund". 20 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the 21 provisions of section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law, and all other 22 monies appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other 23 fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained herein shall prevent 24 the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13468-01-9S. 6632 2 1 the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund 2 according to law. 3 3. a. On or before the first day of February each year, the comp- 4 troller shall certify in a report to the governor, the temporary presi- 5 dent of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the 6 senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means 7 committee, the amount of money deposited in the abortion access fund 8 during the preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived 9 pursuant to section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law and from 10 grants,_gifts and bequests. Such report shall include how the monies of 11 the fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall 12 include: 13 (i) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process 14 used for such disbursements; 15 (ii) recipients of awards from the fund; 16 (iii) the amount awarded to each; 17 (iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and 18 (v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti- 19 mates of all receipts and disbursements for the current and succeeding 20 fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal year. 21 b. Amounts expended for abortion access funds pursuant to this section 22 shall not affect the amount that would otherwise be appropriated for 23 abortion access funds under any other provision of law. 24 c. The state shall not request, promulgate regulations to, or other- 25 wise require, any non-profit organization receiving monies from the 26 abortion access fund to divulge the name, address, photograph, license 27 number, email address, phone number, or any other personally identifying 28 information of any employee, contractor, or volunteer of such organiza- 29 tion, or any patient, or individual who sought or received funding from 30 such organization. 31 d. Any non-profit organization receiving funds from the abortion 32 access fund shall take all necessary steps to ensure the confidentiality 33 of the individuals receiving services. 34 4. Monies of the fund shall be expended, pursuant to a request for 35 proposals issued by the commissioner of health, to fund the operational 36 and programmatic expenses of not-for-profit entities that provide 37 support to individuals in need of abortion services, by addressing 38 financial and logistical barriers that prevent access to care. This 39 shall include, but is not limited to, funding for medical services and 40 logistical costs. 41 5. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of 42 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner 43 of health. 44 6. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the state 45 or any agency of the state, to request or require any information other 46 than information required in paragraph a of subdivision three of this 47 section, from the award recipients of the abortion access fund. 48 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
