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A1094Assembly2017-2018 SessionSame asS3023

Donate to Libraries on Taxes

Official title

“Allows for a gift to the love your library fund on corporate and personal income tax return forms”

Sponsor Sandy GalefAD-95+10 co-sponsorsAffects Finance
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
3/10
Low
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill allows New York taxpayers to make voluntary donations to the Love Your Library Fund through their tax returns and requires annual reporting on fund usage.

Why it matters

  1. Provides a new, simple way for both individuals and businesses to support public libraries. By adding a voluntary donation option on state income tax forms, the bill makes it easy for taxpayers to directly channel funds to the Love Your Library Fund without affecting their tax liability.

  2. Increases transparency and accountability for donated funds. The Department of Education will be required to publish an annual report detailing exactly how the donated money was used, who received funds, the amounts awarded, and the selection process—giving the public greater insight into the impact of their contributions.

  3. Expands the funding sources for libraries. By allowing donations from corporate and personal income tax returns, the fund could grow beyond its previous reliance on revenues from specialized sources like DMV transactions, potentially leading to more resources for library programs and services.

  4. Aims to build public trust and encourage giving. The detailed financial reporting, including future plans and past results, is designed to reassure donors that their contributions are being managed responsibly, which could foster increased charitable giving to support New York’s libraries.

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Donate to Libraries on Taxes

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Sandy Galef

Assembly Member · Assembly District 95

History

  1. Signed chap.174
  2. Delivered to governor
  3. Returned to assembly
  4. Passed senateVote 62–0
  5. 3rd reading cal.2204
  6. Substituted for S3023A
  7. Referred to rules
  8. Delivered to senate
  9. Passed assembly
  10. Ordered to third reading rules cal.277
  11. Rules report cal.277
  12. Reported
Show 4 earlier actions
  1. Reported referred to rules
  2. Print number 1094a
  3. Amend and recommit to ways and means
  4. Referred to ways and means

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S3023Senate

Donate to Libraries on Taxes

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Patty Ritchie

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1094--A

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 10, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, PAULIN, PERRY, MAGEE, OTIS, GUNTHER, SCHIMMINGER, SOLAGES, JAFFEE, McDONALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, DINOWITZ, FINCH, GIGLIO, HAWLEY, HOOPER, LAVINE, LOPEZ, LUPINACCI, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, ORTIZ, PEOPLES-STOKES, RAIA, RIVERA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -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 the love your library fund

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 209-K to read as follows:

§ 209-K. Gift to the love your library fund. Effective for any tax year commencing on or after January first, two thousand eighteen, a taxpayer in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the love your library fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of the state tax owed by such taxpayer. The commissioner shall include space on the corporate income tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all revenues collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the love your library fund and shall be used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-nine-l of the state finance law, as added by chapter three hundred three of the laws of two thousand four.

§ 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-e to read as follows:

§ 630-e. Gift to the love your library fund. Effective for any tax year commencing on or after January first, two thousand eighteen, an individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the love your library fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD02413-05-7

A. 1094--A 2

shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal income tax return to enable a taxpayer to make such contribution. Notwithstanding any other provision of law all revenues collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the love your library fund and used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-nine-l of the state finance law, as added by chapter three hundred three of the laws of two thousand four.

§ 3. Subdivision 2 of section 99-l of the state finance law, as added by chapter 303 of the laws of 2004, is amended and a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows:

2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department of motor vehicles pursuant to section four hundred four-v of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by chapter three hundred three of the laws of two thousand four, all the revenues received by the department of taxation and finance pursuant to sections two hundred nine-K and six hundred thirty-e of the tax law and all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.

2-a. On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner of the department of education shall provide a written report to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the state comptroller and the public. Such report shall include how the monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:

(i) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process used for such disbursements;

(ii) recipients of awards from the fund;

(iii) the amount awarded to each;

(iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and

(v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include estimates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeeding fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal year.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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