New York S 1231: Relates to the creation of the New York farm to school and school garden fund

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S01231 Summary:

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORMAY

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COSPNSRHARCKHAM

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Add §97-ii, St Fin L; add §625-b, Tax L

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Relates to the creation of the New York farm to school and school garden fund; allows individuals to make a gift on their personal tax form for such fund; provides such fund will be used to establish school gardens and purchase equipment and educational materials to promote students' consumption of local products conducted in cooperation with the department of agriculture and markets.

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1231

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. MAY, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the tax law, in relation to
 establishing the New York farm to school and school garden fund

 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 97-ii to read as follows:
 3 § 97-ii. New York farm to school and school garden fund. 1. There is
 4 hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
 5 commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "New York
 6 farm to school and school garden fund".
 7 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received by the department
 8 of taxation and finance, pursuant to the provisions of section six
 9 hundred twenty-five-b of the tax law, and all other moneys appropriated,
 10 credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant
 11 to law. Nothing in this section shall prevent the state from soliciting
 12 and receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of the fund as
 13 defined in this section and depositing them into the fund according to
 14 law.
 15 3. Moneys of the fund shall be expended for the purposes of establish-
 16 ing school gardens and purchasing equipment and educational materials to
 17 promote students' consumption of local products conducted in cooperation
 18 with the department of agriculture and markets. Such department shall be
 19 authorized to create further criteria and limits on such funding if
 20 necessary. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant
 21 of the state comptroller on vouchers approved by the commissioner of
 22 agriculture and markets. Any interest received by the comptroller on
 23 moneys on deposit in the New York farm to school and school garden fund
 24 shall be retained in and become part of such fund.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04061-01-5

 S. 1231 2

 1 4. On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner
 2 of education shall provide a written report to the temporary president
 3 of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance
 4 committee, chair of the assembly ways and means committee, chairs of the
 5 senate committees on education and agriculture, chairs of the assembly
 6 agriculture and education committees, the state comptroller and the
 7 public. Such report shall include how the monies of the fund were
 8 utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:
 9 (a) the amount of money dispersed from the fund and the award process
 10 used for such disbursements;
 11 (b) recipients of awards from the fund;
 12 (c) the amount awarded to each;
 13 (d) the purposes for which such awards were granted; and
 14 (e) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include esti-
 15 mates of all receipts and all disbursements for the current and succeed-
 16 ing fiscal years, along with the actual results from the prior fiscal
 17 year.
 18 § 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 625-b to read as
 19 follows:
 20 § 625-b. Gift for the New York farm to school