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A09857 Summary:

A09857 Actions:

A09857 Committee Votes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS   Chair:Weinstein      
DATE:05/15/2018AYE/NAY:32/1  Action: Favorable         
Weinstein
Aye
Oaks
Aye
Lentol
Aye
Crouch
Aye
Schimminger
Aye
Barclay
Aye
Gantt
Excused
Fitzpatrick
Aye
Glick
Aye
Hawley
Aye
Nolan
Aye
Malliotakis
Aye
Pretlow
Aye
Walter
Aye
Perry
Aye
Montesano
Nay
Colton
Aye
Curran
Aye
Cook
Aye
Ra
Aye
Cahill
Aye
Aubry
Aye
Hooper
Aye
Thiele
Aye
Cusick
Aye
Ortiz
Aye
Benedetto
Aye
Weprin
Aye
Rodriguez
Excused
Ramos
Aye
Braunstein
Aye
McDonald
Aye
Rozic
Aye
Peoples-Stokes
Aye
Simotas
Aye

A09857 Floor Votes:

A09857 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          9857
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 14, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Ways and Means
 
        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in  relation  to  authorizing  a  gift  for
          substance  use  disorder education and recovery on personal income tax
          returns; to amend the state finance law, in relation  to  establishing
          the  substance  use disorder education and recovery fund; and to amend
          the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing grants for  substance
          use disorder education and recovery
 
          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  629-b  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  629-b.  Gift  for  substance  use  disorder education and recovery.
     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 substance use disorder education  and  recovery  fund.
     7  Such  contribution  shall  be  in  any whole dollar amount and shall not
     8  reduce the amount of state tax owed by such individual.  The commission-
     9  er shall include space on the personal income tax  return  to  enable  a
    10  taxpayer  to make such contribution. Notwithstanding any other provision
    11  of law all revenues collected pursuant to this section shall be credited
    12  to the substance use disorder education and recovery fund and used  only
    13  for  those  purposes  enumerated  in  section eighty-nine-i of the state
    14  finance law.
    15    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 89-i  to
    16  read as follows:
    17    §  89-i.  Substance use disorder education and recovery fund. 1. There
    18  is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of  taxa-
    19  tion  and  finance and the state comptroller, a special fund to be known
    20  as the "substance use disorder education and recovery fund".
    21    2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received  pursuant  to  the
    22  provisions  of  section  six  hundred  twenty-nine-b of the tax law, all
    23  revenues received pursuant to appropriations by the legislature, and all
    24  moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03837-01-7
        A. 9857                             2
 
     1  or source pursuant to law. No moneys credited to such fund  pursuant  to
     2  section  six  hundred  twenty-nine-b  of  the tax law shall be deemed to
     3  authorize the reduction of the amount of monies  otherwise  appropriated
     4  by  the  state  for  the purpose of substance use disorder education and
     5  recovery.
     6    3. The monies of the fund shall be made available  to  the  office  of
     7  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse  services for the purpose of providing
     8  grants to organizations dedicated to  providing  education,  prevention,
     9  treatment  or  recovery  to those suffering from substance use disorders
    10  pursuant to section 19.45 of the mental hygiene law.
    11    4. The monies of the fund shall be paid out on the audit  and  warrant
    12  of  the  state  comptroller  on  vouchers  certified  or approved by the
    13  commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services, or by an  offi-
    14  cer or employee of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services
    15  designated by such commissioner.
    16    §  3.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 19.45
    17  to read as follows:
    18  § 19.45 Substance use disorder education and recovery grants.
    19    (a) The office shall develop and implement a  program  which  provides
    20  grants  to  organizations  engaged  in activities which are dedicated to
    21  providing education, prevention, treatment or recovery to those  suffer-
    22  ing from substance use disorders.
    23    (b)  On or before the first day of February each year, the state comp-
    24  troller shall certify  to  the  governor,  temporary  president  of  the
    25  senate,  speaker  of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee
    26  and chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of  money
    27  deposited  in  the  substance  use disorder education and recovery fund,
    28  established pursuant to section eighty-nine-i of the state finance  law,
    29  during  the  preceding  calendar  year  as the result of revenue derived
    30  pursuant to section six hundred twenty-nine-b of the tax law.
    31    (c) On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner
    32  of alcoholism and substance  abuse  services  shall  provide  a  written
    33  report  to  the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assem-
    34  bly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of the  assembly  ways
    35  and  means committee, chair of the senate committee on mental health and
    36  developmental disabilities, and chair  of  the  assembly  mental  health
    37  committee. Such report shall include how the monies of the substance use
    38  disorder  education and recovery  fund were utilized during the proceed-
    39  ing calendar year and shall include:
    40    (1) the amount of money dispersed from the fund;
    41    (2) recipients of awards from the fund;
    42    (3) the amount awarded to each recipient; and
    43    (4) the purposes for which such awards were granted.
    44    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.