New York A 1806: Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center

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A01806 Summary:

BILL NOA01806 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORReyes

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COSPNSRWalker, Simon, Rosenthal, Epstein, Cruz, Lavine, Seawright, Glick, Hevesi, Otis, Zinerman, Burdick,
 Gallagher, Anderson, Jackson, Kelles, Carroll R, Gonzalez-Rojas, Jacobson, Raga, Cunningham,
 Shimsky, Simone, Gibbs, Levenberg, McMahon, Forrest, Tapia

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §630-m, Tax L; add §99-ss, St Fin L

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Establishes the abortion access fund; allows for individuals to designate a gift to the fund on their personal income tax returns.

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BILL NOA01806 

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01/14/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1806

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. REYES, WALKER, SIMON, ROSENTHAL, EPSTEIN, CRUZ,
 LAVINE, SEAWRIGHT, GLICK, HEVESI, OTIS, ZINERMAN, BURDICK, GALLAGHER,
 ANDERSON, JACKSON, KELLES, R. CARROLL, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, JACOBSON, RAGA,
 CUNNINGHAM, SHIMSKY, SIMONE, GIBBS, LEVENBERG, McMAHON, FORREST, TAPIA
 -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the tax law, in relation to
 establishing the abortion access fund and allowing taxpayers to make a
 gift to such fund on their personal income tax returns

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
 2 99-ss to read as follows:
 3 § 99-ss. Abortion access fund. 1. There is hereby established in the
 4 joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of health, a
 5 special fund to be known as the "abortion access fund".
 6 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
 7 provisions of section six hundred thirty-m of the tax law, and all other
 8 monies appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other
 9 fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained herein shall prevent
 10 the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of
 11 the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund
 12 according to law.
 13 3. a. On or before the first day of February each year, the comp-
 14 troller shall certify in a report to the governor, the temporary presi-
 15 dent of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the
 16 senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means
 17 committee, the amount of money deposited in the abortion access fund
 18 during the preceding calendar year as the result of revenue derived
 19 pursuant to section six hundred thirty-m of the tax law and from grants,
 20 gifts and bequests. Such report shall include how the monies of the fund
 21 were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03179-01-5

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 1 (i) the amount of money disbursed from the fund and the award process
 2 used for such disbursements;
 3 (ii) recipients of awards from the fund;
 4 (iii) the amount awarded to each;
 5 (iv) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
 6 (v) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
 7 mates of all receipts and disbursements for the current and succeeding
 8 fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal year.
 9 b. Amounts expended for abortion access funds pursuant to this section
 10 shall not affect the amount that would otherwise be appropriated for
 11 abortion access funds under any other provision of law.
 12 c. The state shall not request, promulgate regulations to, or other-
 13 wise require, any non-profit organization receiving monies from the
 14 abortion access fund to divulge the name, address, photograph, license
 15 number, email address, phone number, or any other personally identifying
 16 information of any employee, contractor, or volunteer of such organiza-
 17 tion, or any patient, or individual who sought or recei