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                                   2807
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. LAVINE, SKOUFIS, RAIA, GUNTHER, SALADINO, TITUS,
   MOSLEY, BENEDETTO, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAHILL,
   PEOPLES-STOKES, RIVERA, TITONE  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
   Committee on Aging
 
 AN  ACT  authorizing  the  creation of a state debt in the amount of one
   billion dollars, in relation to enacting the Alzheimer's research bond
   act of 2018 and providing for the submission to the people of a propo-
   sition or question therefor to be voted upon at the  general  election
   to be held in November, 2018
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The Alzheimer's research bond act of  2018  is  enacted  to
 read as follows:
                    ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH BOND ACT OF 2018
 Section 1. Short title.
         2. Creation of a state debt.
         3. Bonds of the state.
         4. Consistency with federal tax law.
         5. Use of moneys received.
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "Alzheimer's research bond act of 2018".
   § 2. Creation of a state debt. The creation of  a  state  debt  to  an
 amount   not   exceeding   in   the   aggregate   one   billion  dollars
 ($1,000,000,000) is hereby authorized to provide moneys for  the  single
 purpose  of funding research grants and financing collaborations related
 to scientific research of Alzheimer's disease including  causes,  treat-
 ment and clinical trials of medications.
   The  legislature shall, by appropriate legislation and subject to such
 conditions as it may impose, make available out of the proceeds  of  the
 sale  of  bonds  authorized  in  this  act,  moneys  disbursed  or to be
 disbursed for state programs or state  assistance  payments  toward  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 cost  of such programs undertaken by or through a state or local agency,
 not-for-profit entity,  or  higher  educational  institutions,  for  the
 purpose  of funding research for the causes and treatment of Alzheimer's
 disease.
   §  3.  Bonds  of the state. The state comptroller is hereby authorized
 and empowered to issue and sell bonds of the state in the amount of  one
 billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) for the purpose of this act, subject to
 the  provisions  of  article  5  of the state finance law. The aggregate
 principal amount of such bonds shall  not  exceed  one  billion  dollars
 excluding  bonds  issued  to refund or otherwise repay bonds theretofore
 issued for such purpose; provided, however, that upon any such refunding
 or repayment the total aggregate principal amount of  outstanding  bonds
 may be greater than one billion dollars only if the present value of the
 aggregate  debt service of the refunding or repayment bonds to be issued
 shall not exceed the present value of the aggregate debt service of  the
 bonds to be refunded or repaid. The method for calculating present value
 shall be determined by law.
   §  4.  Consistency with federal tax law. Bonds issued pursuant to this
 act shall be issued as tax-exempt bonds  for  purposes  of  the  federal
 internal  revenue  code  and  regulations  thereunder. All actions taken
 pursuant to this act shall be reviewed for consistency  with  provisions
 of  the  federal  internal  revenue  code and regulations thereunder, in
 accordance with procedures established in connection with  the  issuance
 of any bonds pursuant to this act which are intended to be federally tax
 exempt to preserve the federal tax exempt status of such bonds.
   § 5. Use of moneys received. The moneys received by the state from the
 sale  of  bonds  sold pursuant to this act shall be expended pursuant to
 appropriations for funding research grants and financing  collaborations
 related  to scientific research of Alzheimer's disease including causes,
 treatment and clinical trials of medications.
   § 2. This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately,  provided  that  the
 provisions  of  section one of this act shall not take effect unless and
 until this act shall have been submitted to the people  at  the  general
 election to be held in November, 2018, and shall have received a majori-
 ty  of all votes cast for and against it at such election. Upon approval
 by the people section one of this act shall take effect immediately. The
 ballots to be furnished for the use of the voters upon the submission of
 section one of this act shall be in the form prescribed by the  election
 law,  and  the  proposition or question to be submitted shall be printed
 thereon in substantially the following form, namely, "Shall section  one
 of  chapter  (here insert the number of the chapter) of the laws of 2018
 known as the Alzheimer's research bond act of 2018, which provides fund-
 ing for critical research into the causes and treatment  of  Alzheimer's
 disease  by  authorizing  the  creation  of state debt to provide moneys
 therefor in the amount  of  one  billion  dollars  ($1,000,000,000),  be
 approved?"