Directs the commissioner of taxation and finance to include a space on the personal income tax return for taxpayers to check off if they wish to contribute to the state library aid program for financial support for public libraries.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7563
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 9, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing a tax check-off
for the state library system
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. Gifts for the state library system. Effective for any tax
4 year commencing on or after January first, two thousand twenty, an indi-
5 vidual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the state library
6 aid program for financial support for public libraries and library
7 systems, reference and research library resource systems, the New York
8 public research libraries, the Schomburg collection and the library for
9 the blind and visually handicapped. Such contribution shall be in any
10 whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by
11 such individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal
12 income tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution.
13 Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected pursu-
14 ant to this section shall be credited to the state library aid program
15 and shall be used in addition to, not to supplant, existing funding
16 under the state library aid program and used for only those purposes
17 enumerated in section two hundred seventy-three of the education law.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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