Creates a personal income tax check-off box for donations to the school-based health centers fund; creates the school-based health centers fund; specifies the use for which moneys of the fund may be expended.

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S326A-2011 Actions

• Mar 12, 2012: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Feb 21, 2012: NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
• Dec 21, 2011: PRINT NUMBER 326A
• Dec 21, 2011: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
• Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

S326A-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S326A

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to providing
a tax check-off box on personal income tax return forms for gifts to the
school-based health centers
fund

PURPOSE:
This bill creates a voluntary NYS income tax check off for the funding
of school based health centers of one dollar per taxpayer. Such funds
shall be deposited in the school based health fund in the custody of
the Comptroller to be used by the Department of Health to fund
expansion of medical services at existing school based health sites
or to establish new sites.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-c. The state
finance law is amended by adding a new section 81.

JUSTIFICATION:
For school-age children and youth in high needs areas, School Based
Health Clinics are the first line of defense against costly
hospitalizations because they provide preventive services for such
chronic conditions as epileptic seizures, asthma, diabetes,
gastroenteritis, urinary tract infections, nutritional deficiencies,
and pelvic inflammatory disease. Mental health services offered at
some of these clinics have produced significant declines in
depression and improvements in self concept. Creation of an income
tax check off will permit expansion of services and development of
new sites to provide these vital health services.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2003-2004: S.4788  Died in Committee
2005-2006: S.1802A Died in Committee
2007-2008: S.4778  Died in Committee
2009-2010: S.4158  Died in Committee

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
$2 million in new revenue.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S326A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   326--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 5, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sens.  MONTGOMERY, HASSELL-THOMPSON, OPPENHEIMER -- read
    twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
    Committee  on  Investigations  and  Government Operations -- committee
    discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
    to said committee

  AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law,  in  relation  to
    providing  a tax check-off box on personal income tax return forms for
    gifts to the school-based health centers 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-c to
  read as follows:

    S 630-C. GIFT FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS. EFFECTIVE FOR  ANY  TAX
  YEAR COMMENCING ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE, AN INDI-
  VIDUAL  IN  ANY TAXABLE YEAR MAY ELECT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SCHOOL-BASED
  HEALTH CENTERS FUND. SUCH CONTRIBUTION SHALL  BE  IN  ANY  WHOLE  DOLLAR
  AMOUNT  AND  SHALL NOT REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF STATE TAX OWED BY SUCH INDI-
  VIDUAL. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INCLUDE SPACE ON THE PERSONAL INCOME  TAX
  RETURN  TO ENABLE A TAXPAYER TO MAKE SUCH CONTRIBUTION. THE COMMISSIONER
  SHALL ALSO ENSURE THAT A DESCRIPTION OF A SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTER  IS
  INCLUDED  WITHIN  THE TAX FORM PREPARATION INSTRUCTION BOOKLET. NOTWITH-
  STANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW ALL REVENUES COLLECTED  PURSUANT  TO
  THIS  SECTION  SHALL BE CREDITED TO THE SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS FUND
  AND USED ONLY FOR THOSE PURPOSES ENUMERATED IN SECTION EIGHTY-ONE OF THE
  STATE FINANCE LAW.
    S 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new  section  81  to
  read as follows:

    S 81. SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS FUND. 1. THERE IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED
  IN  THE JOINT CUSTODY OF THE COMPTROLLER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH,
  A SPECIAL FUND TO BE KNOWN AS THE "SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS FUND".

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD01416-02-1

 S. 326--A                           2

    2. SUCH FUND SHALL CONSIST OF ALL REVENUES RECEIVED  PURSUANT  TO  THE
  PROVISIONS OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-C OF THE TAX LAW, AND ALL OTHER
  MONEYS  APPROPRIATED,  CREDITED,  OR  TRANSFERRED THERETO FROM ANY OTHER
  FUND OR SOURCE PURSUANT TO LAW. NOTHING CONTAINED HEREIN  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 TO FUND EXPANSION OF MEDICAL
  SERVICES AT EXISTING SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS  OR  TO  ESTABLISH  NEW
  SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS.
    4.  MONIES  SHALL BE PAYABLE FROM THE FUND ON THE AUDIT AND WARRANT OF
  THE COMPTROLLER ON VOUCHERS APPROVED AND CERTIFIED BY  THE  COMMISSIONER
  OF HEALTH.
    5.  AMOUNTS  EXPENDED FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS PURSUANT TO THIS
  SECTION SHALL NOT AFFECT THE AMOUNT THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE APPROPRIATED
  FOR SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTERS UNDER ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW.
    6. SERVICES PERFORMED BY SCHOOL-BASED  HEALTH  CENTERS  AVAILABLE  FOR
  MONEYS FROM THIS FUND SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

    A. COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS;
    B. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ACUTE ILLNESSES;
    C. VISION, HEARING, DENTAL, NUTRITIONAL, AND TUBERCULOSIS SCREENINGS;
    D. ROUTINE MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES;
    E. HEALTH EDUCATION;
    F. MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING AND REFERRALS;
    G. IMMUNIZATIONS;
    H. WORKING PAPERS AND SPORTS PHYSICALS; AND
    I. POPULATION-BASED PRIMARY PREVENTION.
    SERVICES  SHALL  BE  PROVIDED  ON-SITE  BY  A  MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAM
  CONSISTING OF A MID-LEVEL PRACTITIONER, A MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR, AND A
  MEDICAL ASSISTANT IN CONSULTATION WITH A PHYSICIAN.  THE  CENTERS  SHALL
  ALSO PROVIDE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS PER DAY, SEVEN DAYS
  PER WEEK.
    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.