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Senate Bill S947

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Establishes a personal income tax checkoff on personal income tax returns for gifts to the love your library fund

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2009-S947 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §630-b, Tax L; amd §99-l, St Fin L

2009-S947 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a personal income tax checkoff on personal income tax returns for gifts to the love your library fund.

2009-S947 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S947 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   947

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  FARLEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law,  in  relation  to
  providing  a tax checkoff box on personal income tax returns for gifts
  to the love your library fund

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  tax  law is amended by adding a new section 630-b to
read as follows:
  S 630-B. GIFT FOR LOVE YOUR LIBRARY FUND. EFFECTIVE FOR ANY  TAX  YEAR
COMMENCING ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN, AN INDIVIDUAL
IN  ANY  TAXABLE  YEAR  MAY ELECT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOVE YOUR LIBRARY
FUND ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION NINETY-NINE-L OF THE STATE  FINANCE
LAW. 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 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 ENUMER-
ATED IN SECTION NINETY-NINE-L OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW.
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 99-l of the state finance law, as  added
by chapter 303 of the laws of 2004, is amended 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, SECTION SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-B OF THE TAX  LAW,  and  all
other  moneys  appropriated,  credited,  or transferred thereto from any
other fund or source pursuant to law.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01614-01-9

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