What's happening
This bill allows New York taxpayers to donate to the William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund via a check-off on income tax returns.
Why it matters
Expands direct public support for child welfare programs. by letting taxpayers easily contribute to the William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund, potentially increasing funding for services supporting at-risk children and families.
Adds new transparency and accountability requirements. for the Trust Fund by mandating detailed annual reporting. This includes how much money is raised through the tax check-off, where it is distributed, and for what specific purposes.
Enables donors to track the impact of their contributions. through required disclosure of recipients, amounts disbursed, and financial planning, which may encourage more taxpayers to participate and foster trust in how the funds are used.
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History
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.39
- Rules report cal.39
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Print number 3496b
- Amend and recommit to ways and means
- Referred to ways and means
- Reported referred to rules
- Print number 3496a
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Add Child Abuse Donation Option
In Senate Committee · Investigations And Government Operations · Sponsor Pamela Helming
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3496--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the tax law and the social services law, in relation to providing for the inclusion of a check off box on personal income tax return forms for the purpose of making a gift to the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust 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 630-f to read as follows:
§ 630-f. Gift for the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund. Effective for any tax year commencing on or after January first, two thousand nineteen, an individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund established pursuant to section four hundred eighty-one-f of the social services law. Such contribution shall be in any whole dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such individual. The tax commission 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 William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund and used only for those purposes enumerated in article ten-A of the social services law.
§ 2. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 8 of section 481-e of the social services law, as amended by chapter 57 of the laws of 1985, are amended to read as follows:
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(e) a description of the nature and quality of services provided and the impact upon the populations and communities served and their potential for being replicated elsewhere; [and]
(f) a description of how the moneys of the fund collected pursuant to section six hundred thirty-f of the tax law were utilized during the preceding calendar year, including information concerning:
(i) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the distribution process used for such disbursements;
(ii) recipients of the expenses from the fund;
(iii) the amount allotted to each;
(iv) the purposes for which such distributions 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; and
(g) all such other matters as may be necessary to inform the governor and the legislature regarding the implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of programs covered by this section and the success of such programs in accomplishing the intent of the legislature.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all taxable years commencing after January 1, 2019.
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