STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 325 A. 562
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi-
gations and Government Operations
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. DUPREY -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to
establishing a gift for the autism awareness and research fund
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-a to
2 read as follows:
3 § 629-a. Gift for the autism awareness and research fund. Effective
4 for any tax year commencing on or after January first, two thousand
5 nine, an individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the
6 New York state autism awareness and research fund established pursuant
7 to section ninety-five-e of the state finance law, as added by chapter
8 three hundred one of the laws of two thousand four. The contribution
9 shall be in any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of
10 state tax owed by such individual. The commissioner shall include space
11 on the personal income tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such
12 contribution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all revenue
13 collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the New York
14 state autism awareness and research fund and used only for those
15 purposes enumerated in such section of the state finance law.
16 § 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, section six hundred twenty-nine-a of the tax law, and all other
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other
2 fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section shall
3 prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the
4 purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
5 the fund according to law.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
