Bill Text: NY S05291 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for gifts on tax returns for autism awareness and research.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-18 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S05291 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S05291-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5291--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 3, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations -- 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 autism awareness and research
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-c to
2 read as follows:
3 S 630-C. GIFT FOR AUTISM AWARENESS AND RESEARCH. EFFECTIVE FOR ANY
4 TAX YEAR COMMENCING ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN, AN
5 INDIVIDUAL IN ANY TAXABLE YEAR MAY ELECT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE NEW YORK
6 STATE AUTISM AWARENESS AND RESEARCH FUND FOR AUTISM AWARENESS PROJECTS
7 AND AUTISM RESEARCH PROJECTS. THE CONTRIBUTION SHALL BE IN ANY WHOLE
8 DOLLAR AMOUNT AND SHALL NOT REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF STATE TAX OWED BY SUCH
9 INDIVIDUAL. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE SPACE ON THE PERSONAL INCOME
10 TAX RETURN TO ENABLE A TAXPAYER TO MAKE SUCH CONTRIBUTION. NOTWITHSTAND-
11 ING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW ALL REVENUES COLLECTED PURSUANT TO THIS
12 SECTION SHALL BE CREDITED TO THE NEW YORK STATE AUTISM AWARENESS AND
13 RESEARCH FUND AND USED ONLY FOR THOSE PURPOSES ENUMERATED IN SECTION
14 NINETY-FIVE-E OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW, AS ADDED BY CHAPTER THREE
15 HUNDRED ONE OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND FOUR.
16 S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 95-e of the state finance law, as added
17 by chapter 301 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
18 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
19 provisions of section four hundred four-v of the vehicle and traffic
20 law, AS ADDED BY CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED ONE OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND
21 FOUR, ALL REVENUES RECEIVED PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-C OF
22 THE TAX LAW and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred
23 thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01965-02-1
S. 5291--A 2
1 in this section shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or
2 bequests for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and
3 depositing them into the fund according to law.
4 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
