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A2456Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS2503

Add Tax Form Charity Box

Official title

“Relates to providing 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 for child abuse prevention”

Sponsor Michaelle C. SolagesAD-22Affects Finance
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
3/10
Low
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill adds a voluntary check-off box on New York personal income tax forms to allow donations to the William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund.

Why it matters

  1. Encourages charitable giving. by making it easier for New Yorkers to voluntarily support the William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund directly through their tax returns, potentially increasing resources for vulnerable children and families.

  2. Ensures transparency and accountability. by requiring detailed annual reporting on how donated funds are used, including who receives the money, how much they receive, and for what purposes, helping to build public trust in the fund’s management.

  3. Directs funds exclusively to children and family services. as outlined in the social services law, which means contributions can only be spent on programs intended to benefit children and families, safeguarding donor intent.

  4. Could inspire replication for other causes. if the mechanism proves successful, potentially leading to more opportunities for taxpayers to support various public benefit funds directly through their tax filings.

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Add Tax Form Charity Box

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Michaelle C. Solages

Assembly Member · Assembly District 22

Chair, Local Governments

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Signed chap.387
  2. Delivered to governor
  3. Returned to assembly
  4. Passed senateVote 61–1
  5. 3rd reading cal.1756
  6. Substituted for S2503
  7. Referred to finance
  8. Delivered to senate
  9. Passed assembly
  10. Advanced to third reading cal.392
  11. Reported
  12. 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.

S2503Senate

Add Tax Option for Charity

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Pamela Helming

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2456

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 22, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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-g to read as follows:

§ 630-g. 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 twenty-one, 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:

(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]

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

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

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(f) a description of how the moneys of the fund collected pursuant to section six hundred thirty-g 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, 2021.

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