What's happening
This bill allows taxpayers to voluntarily contribute to a new fund supporting spay and neuter programs for rescued animals in New York.
Why it matters
Creates a dedicated fund for spay and neuter programs. The bill establishes a "rescued animals spay and neuter fund," ensuring that all contributions are used specifically for controlling animal populations and supporting rescued animals, rather than going into the general state budget.
Provides transparency and accountability. Annual reporting requirements mandate detailed disclosures on how the fund’s money is used, including recipients, amounts awarded, and intended uses, which helps build public trust and ensures funds are spent as intended.
Enables broad support and sustainability. The fund can receive not only voluntary tax return contributions but also legislative appropriations, grants, gifts, and bequests, expanding potential resources for animal welfare and allowing for long-term planning.
Links funding directly to animal welfare initiatives. By tying expenditures to provisions in the agriculture and markets law, the bill ensures that the money directly supports concrete programs for spaying and neutering rescued animals, potentially reducing shelter overcrowding and euthanasia rates.
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Fund Spay Neuter Rescued Animals
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History
- Referred to finance
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Amended on third reading 1986b
- Ordered to third reading cal.149
- Returned to assembly
- Died in senate
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.85
- Rules report cal.85
Show 5 earlier actions
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Print number 1986a
- Amend and recommit to ways and means
- Referred to ways and means
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Fund Spay Neuter Rescued Animals
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Phil Boyle
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1986--B Cal. No. 149
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to the rescued animals spay and neuter 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-L to read as follows:
§ 209-L. Gift for rescued animals protection. 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 rescued animals spay and neuter fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of 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 rescued animals spay and neuter fund and shall be used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-five-i of the state finance law.
§ 2. Part 2 of article 22 of the tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-f to read as follows:
§ 630-f. Gift for rescued animals protection. 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 rescued animals spay and neuter fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and 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 an individual to make such contribution. Notwith-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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standing any other provision of law, all revenues collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the rescued animals spay and neuter fund and shall be used only for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-five-i of the state finance law.
§ 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 95-i to read as follows:
§ 95-i. Rescued animals spay and neuter fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of agriculture and markets and the comptroller a special fund to be known as the "rescued animals spay and neuter fund". The commissioner of agriculture and markets shall promulgate any rules and regulations the commissioner deems necessary to implement and regulate such fund.
2. Such fund shall consist of:
a. all revenues received by the department of taxation and finance pursuant to the provisions of sections two hundred nine-L and six hundred thirty-f of the tax law;
b. all revenues received pursuant to appropriation by the legislature; and
c. all other moneys appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.
The commissioner of taxation and finance shall report annually to the state comptroller the amounts designated for the fund pursuant to sections two hundred nine-L and six hundred thirty-f of the tax law, who shall transfer that amount to the fund. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts, or bequests for the purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund.
3. On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner of agriculture and markets 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, chair of the senate agriculture committee, chair of the assembly agriculture 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:
(a) the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process used for such disbursements;
(b) recipients of awards from the fund;
(c) the amount awarded to each;
(d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
(e) 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. Moneys of the fund shall be expended for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of section one hundred seventeen-a of the agriculture and markets law. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers approved by the commissioner of agriculture and markets. Any interest received by the comptroller on moneys on deposit in the animal population control fund shall be retained in and become part of such fund.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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