Creates a personal income tax check-off box for donations to the school-based health centers fund; creates the school-based health centers fund; specifies the use for which moneys of the fund may be expended.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4487--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 15, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi-
gations and Government Operations -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations and Government
Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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
providing a tax check-off box on personal income tax return forms for
gifts to the school-based health centers 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 630-f to
2 read as follows:
3 § 630-f. Gift for school-based health centers. Effective for any tax
4 year commencing on or after January first, two thousand nineteen, an
5 individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the school-
6 based health centers fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole
7 dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such
8 individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal income
9 tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. The commis-
10 sioner shall also ensure that a description of a school-based health
11 center is included within the tax form preparation instruction booklet.
12 Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected pursu-
13 ant to this section shall be credited to the school-based health centers
14 fund and used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-nine-
15 bb of the state finance law.
16 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-bb to
17 read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 99-bb. School-based health centers fund. 1. There is hereby estab-
2 lished in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of
3 health, a special fund to be known as the "school-based health centers
4 fund".
5 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
6 provisions of section six hundred thirty-f of the tax law, and all other
7 moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other
8 fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained herein shall prevent
9 the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of
10 the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund
11 according to law.
12 3. On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner
13 of health shall provide a written report to the temporary president of
14 the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance commit-
15 tee, chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the state comp-
16 troller and the public. Such report shall include how the monies of the
17 fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall
18 include:
19 a. the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process
20 used for such disbursements;
21 b. recipients of awards from the fund;
22 c. the amount awarded to each;
23 d. the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
24 e. a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
25 mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed-
26 ing fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal
27 year.
28 4. Monies of the fund shall be expended to fund expansion of medical
29 services at existing school-based health centers or to establish new
30 school-based health centers.
31 5. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
32 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
33 of health.
34 6. Amounts expended for school-based health centers pursuant to this
35 section shall not affect the amount that would otherwise be appropriated
36 for school-based health centers under any other provision of law.
37 7. Services performed by school-based health centers available for
38 moneys from this fund shall include, but not be limited to:
39 a. comprehensive physical health and mental health assessments;
40 b. diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses;
41 c. vision, hearing, dental, nutritional, and tuberculosis screenings;
42 d. routine management of chronic diseases;
43 e. health education;
44 f. mental health counseling and referrals;
45 g. immunizations;
46 h. working papers and sports physicals; and
47 i. population-based primary prevention.
48 Services shall be provided on-site by a multi-disciplinary team
49 consisting of a mid-level practitioner, a mental health counselor, and a
50 medical assistant in consultation with a physician. The centers shall
51 also provide access to health care twenty-four hours per day, seven days
52 per week.
53 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
