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- Reported and committed to finance
- Print number 5721a
- Amend and recommit to health
- Referred to health
- Referred to rules
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Provides for taxpayer gifts for lupus education and prevention, and establishes the lupus education and prevention fund and outreach program
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Vanessa Gibson
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BILL NUMBER:S5721A
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to providing for taxpayer gifts for lupus education and prevention, and establishing the lupus education and prevention fund and outreach program
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill establishes the lupus education and prevention fund which will be financed by optional contributions derived from a taxpayer check-off placed on all corporate and personal income tax forms.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 provides the legislature's intent in advancing lupus education and prevention.
Section 2 specifically authorizes the Department of Health, through its Health Care and Wellness Education and Outreach Program, to conduct education and outreach for consumers, patients, and health care providers relating to the dangers of lupus and ways to prevent the incidence and severity of lupus. Such outreach and education program shall include an advisory council under this section that shall include representatives of people with lupus, their families, and health care providers who specialize in treating lupus.
Section 3 amends PHL §207-(7) to allow the Health Care and Wellness Education and Outreach Program to make grants, within amounts appropriated, to public and not-for-profit entities.
Sections 4 and 5 add §§209-H and 630-c to the Tax Law, respectively, to allow corporate and individual taxpayers the option of contributing to the lupus education and prevention fund via a tax check-off on their tax return.
Section 6 adds a §97-1111 to the State Finance Law to establish the lupus education and prevention fund under the joint custody of the commissioner of Taxation and Finance and state comptroller. Monies received into this fund shall be expended only for lupus education and prevention projects.
Section 7 provides the effective date.
Justification
Lupus is a serious, complex, debilitating autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation and tissue damage to virtually any organ system in the body, including the skin, joints, other connective tissue, blood and blood vessels, heart, lungs, kidney, and brain. This bill provides a mechanism to raise funds in order to promote lupus awareness, education and prevention.
Prior legislative history
New legislation.
Fiscal implications
JUSTIFICATION: Lupus is a serious, complex, debilitating autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation and tissue damage to virtually any organ system in the body, including the skin, joints, other connective tissue, blood and blood vessels, heart, lungs, kidney, and brain. This bill provides a mechanism to raise funds in order to promote lupus awareness, education and prevention.
Prior legislative history
New legislation.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the three hundred sixty-fifth day after it shall have become law.
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