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NY A04286
Bill
Status
2/2/2011
Primary Sponsor
Peter Rivera
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AI Summary
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Allows individual taxpayers to voluntarily contribute any whole dollar amount to a mental illness anti-stigma fund on their personal income tax returns starting in tax year 2011, without reducing their state tax liability.
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Establishes the Mental Illness Anti-Stigma Fund in joint custody of the Commissioner of Taxation and Finance and the State Comptroller to receive contributions from tax returns, legislative appropriations, and other sources.
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Directs the Office of Mental Health to use fund monies to provide grants to organizations dedicated to eliminating stigma attached to mental illness and persons with mental health needs.
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Specifies that contributions to the fund shall not be used to reduce other state appropriations for mental illness stigma elimination purposes.
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Legislative Description
Establishes a gift for eliminating the stigma relating to mental illness on personal income tax returns; establishes the mental illness anti-stigma fund into which such gifts shall be deposited; directs the monies in such fund be used by the office of mental health to provide grants to organizations dedicated to eliminating the stigma attached to mental illness and those with mental health needs.
Last Action
enacting clause stricken
9/4/2012