STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8742 IN SENATE May 10, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to providing for taxpayer gifts for leukemia, lympho- ma and myeloma research, education and treatment and establishing the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 2 27-CCC to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 27-CCC 4 LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOMA AND MYELOMA RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TREATMENT PROGRAM 5 Section 2747. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and 6 treatment. 7 § 2747. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treat- 8 ment. The commissioner shall establish within the department a program 9 to promote research, education and treatment regarding leukemia, lympho- 10 ma and myeloma. To carry out the purposes of this section, the commis- 11 sioner shall have the following powers and duties: 12 1. to promote research, education and treatment programs designed to 13 reduce or prevent the incidence and severity of leukemia, lymphoma and 14 myeloma; 15 2. to accept and expend any grants, awards or other funds or appropri- 16 ations as may be available for these purposes subject to limitations as 17 to the approval of expenditures and audit as prescribed for state funds 18 by the state finance law; and 19 3. to enter into contracts within the amounts available therefor as 20 may be necessary to implement the provisions of this section. 21 § 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 209-L to read as 22 follows: 23 § 209-L. Gift for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education 24 and treatment. Effective for any tax year commencing on or after January 25 first, two thousand nineteen, a taxpayer in any taxable year may elect 26 to contribute to the support of the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00255-06-8S. 8742 2 1 research, education and treatment fund. Such contribution shall be in 2 any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of the state tax 3 owed by such taxpayer. The commissioner shall include space on the 4 corporate income tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contrib- 5 ution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all revenues 6 collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the leukemia, 7 lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment fund and shall be 8 used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-seven-rrrr of 9 the state finance law. 10 § 3. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-f to read as 11 follows: 12 § 630-f. Gift for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education 13 and treatment. Effective for any tax year commencing on or after Janu- 14 ary first, two thousand nineteen, an individual in any taxable year may 15 elect to contribute to the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, 16 education and treatment fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole 17 dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such 18 individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal income 19 tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwith- 20 standing any other provision of law all revenues collected pursuant to 21 this section shall be credited to the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma 22 research, education and treatment fund and used only for those purposes 23 enumerated in section ninety-seven-rrrr of the state finance law. 24 § 4. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 97-rrrr 25 to read as follows: 26 § 97-rrrr. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and 27 treatment fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of 28 the commissioner of taxation and finance and the comptroller, a special 29 fund to be known as the "leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, educa- 30 tion and treatment fund". 31 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department 32 of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section two 33 hundred nine-L and section six hundred thirty-f of the tax law and all 34 other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any 35 other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section 36 shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the 37 purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into 38 the fund according to law. 39 2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the commission- 40 er of health shall provide a written report to the temporary president 41 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate 42 finance committee, the chair of the assembly ways and means committee, 43 the chair of the senate committee on health, the chair of the assembly 44 health committee, the state comptroller and the public. Such report 45 shall include how the monies of the fund were utilized during the 46 preceding calendar year, and shall include: 47 (i) the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process 48 used for such disbursements; 49 (ii) recipients of awards from the fund; 50 (iii) the amount awarded to each recipient; 51 (iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and 52 (v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti- 53 mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed- 54 ing fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal 55 year.S. 8742 3 1 3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for leukemia, lymphoma 2 and myeloma research, education and treatment projects. As used in this 3 section, "leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treat- 4 ment projects" means research, education and treatment projects, includ- 5 ing grants for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and 6 treatment, which, pursuant to section twenty-seven hundred forty-seven 7 of the public health law, are approved by the department of health. 8 Such grants may include, among others, grants to public and private 9 hospitals, medical centers, medical schools and other organizations. 10 4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of 11 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner 12 of health. 13 5. To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health shall ensure 14 that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the 15 end of that fiscal year. 16 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable 17 years commencing on or after January 1, 2019.