Assembly Bill A6436

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Allocates certain tax revenue to the tobacco use prevention and control program fund

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A6436 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §482, Tax L; add §86, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7426
2015-2016: A5987
2017-2018: A6074

2019-A6436 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allocates certain tax revenue to the tobacco use prevention and control program fund for programs to help smokers quit and to keep children from smoking.

2019-A6436 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6436
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CRESPO,  GOODELL,  HEVESI, JAFFEE, PICHARDO,
   RIVERA, STIRPE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, CROUCH,  FINCH,
   LAWRENCE,  LUPARDO, MOSLEY, SIMON, THIELE -- 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
   allocating  certain  revenue to the tobacco use prevention and control
   program fund for programs to help smokers quit and  to  keep  children
   from smoking
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Statement of  legislative  intent.  The  legislature  finds
 that:
   New  York  state  has  raised  over  twelve billion dollars in tobacco
 revenues over the past seven years, yet only three and one-half  percent
 of  these revenues have been spent on the state's Tobacco Use Prevention
 and Control Program.
   In the year 2013, New York state spent only  sixteen  percent  of  the
 amount  recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on
 tobacco control.  New York state was once a leader  in  tobacco  control
 support spending, but now ranks twenty-first in the United States.
   From  the  years 2007-2013, funding for the New York State Tobacco Use
 Prevention and Control Program was cut by more than  half.  This  inade-
 quate  funding level for the program stands in contrast to promises made
 in 1998 by public officials to invest  state  dollars  earned  from  the
 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement in tobacco control programs.
   The  Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement states that its purpose is to
 "achieve for the Settling States and their citizens significant  funding
 for  the advancement of public health" and "the implementation of impor-
 tant tobacco-related public health measures."
   When more adequately funded, the  State  Tobacco  Use  Prevention  and
 Control  Program  achieved  successes in the effort to curb tobacco use.

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

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