What's happening
This bill allows taxpayers to voluntarily contribute to a new fund supporting home-delivered meals for seniors via tax forms.
Why it matters
Creates a dedicated fund ("senior wellness in nutrition fund"). that can only be used to support home-delivered meal programs for seniors, ensuring taxpayer contributions go directly to these services rather than into the general budget.
Allows both individuals and businesses to participate. by making voluntary, non-deductible donations through their state tax forms, potentially increasing the resources available for senior nutrition programs.
Requires annual public reporting and oversight. on how much money the fund receives, how it is spent, who receives funding, and for what purposes—creating transparency and accountability around the use of donated funds.
Aims to address senior food insecurity. by providing a new, direct funding stream for programs like Meals on Wheels, which can help more seniors remain independent and healthy in their homes.
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Tax Form Meals for Seniors
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Approval memo.49
- Signed chap.659
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- 3rd reading cal.1356
- Substituted for S5987
- Referred to budget and revenue
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.344
- Reported
Show 1 earlier action
- 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.
Support Meals for Seniors
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor James Sanders Jr.
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4632
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to establishing a gift for home delivered meals for seniors on the business franchise and personal income tax forms and establishing the senior wellness in nutrition 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-M to read as follows:
§ 209-M. Gift for home delivered meals for seniors. Effective for any tax year commencing on or after January first, two thousand nineteen, a taxpayer in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the support of the senior wellness in nutrition fund for the purpose of providing home delivered meals to seniors. 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 business franchise income tax return, entitled "Meals on Wheels for Seniors", 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 senior wellness in nutrition fund and shall only be used for those purposes enumerated in section ninety-one-g of the state finance law.
§ 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 626-a to read as follows:
§ 626-a. Gift for home delivered meals for seniors. 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 support of the senior wellness in nutrition fund for the purpose of providing home delivered meals to seniors. Such contribution shall be in any whole
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[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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, entitled "Meals on Wheels for Seniors", 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 senior wellness in nutrition fund and used only for the purposes enumerated in section ninety-one-g of the state finance law.
§ 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 91-g to read as follows:
§ 91-g. Senior wellness in nutrition fund. 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the commissioner of taxation and finance and the comptroller, a special fund to be known as the "senior wellness in nutrition fund".
2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred nine-M and section six hundred twenty-six-a of the tax law, and all other moneys appropriated, credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing 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 according to law.
3. Monies of the fund shall be expended solely for senior wellness in nutrition programs approved by the state office for the aging, for the purpose of providing home delivered meals to seniors.
4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the director of the state office for the aging.
5. To the extent practicable, the director of the state office for the aging shall ensure that all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the end of such fiscal year.
6. On or before the first day of February each year, the comptroller shall certify to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee and chair of the assembly ways and means committee, the amount of money deposited in the senior wellness in nutrition fund during the preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived pursuant to sections two hundred nine-M and six hundred twenty-six-a of the tax law.
7. On or before the first day of February each year, the director of the state office for the aging 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 committee on aging, and chair of the assembly aging committee. 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 dispersed from the fund;
(ii) recipients of awards from the fund;
(iii) the amount awarded to each; and
(iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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