Amd SS85-a & 85-b, Chap 1 of 1999
Makes a technical amendment to HCRA relating to tobacco control and
insurance initiatives.
Governor's Program
SPONSORS MEMO:
BILL NUMBER: A10835
SPONSOR: Rules
TITLE
OF BILL: An act to amend chapter 1 of the laws of 1999, relat-
ing to the New York
Health Care Reform Act of 2000, in relation to the
tobacco control and
insurance initiatives pool
PURPOSE:
This bill clarifies
language as requested by the State Comptroller
directing the portion
of Tobacco Settlement Fund receipts dedicated to
the New York Health
Care Reform Act of 2000 into the Tobacco Control and
Insurance Initiatives
Pool.
SUMMARY
OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 ensures the
appropriate flow of tobacco settlement fund moneys
to the Tobacco Control
and Insurance Initiatives Pool.
Section 2 provides that
the bill shall be effective immediately, and
shall be deemed to be
in force on and after April 1, 2000.
EXISTING
LAW:
None.
STATEMENT
IN SUPPORT:
The enactment of this
clarifying language is necessary to maintain
continuity in State
services and financial management in the absence of
an enacted Budget for
the 2000-01 fiscal year and to maintain balance in
the 2000-01 Financial
Plan. Moreover, the Comptroller has requested that
this clarification be
made.
BUDGETARY
IMPLICATIONS:
Enactment of this bill
is needed to provide savings and revenues assumed
in the 2000-01 proposed
State Financial Plan.
CHAPTER TEXT:
LAWS OF NEW YORK, 2000
AN ACT to
amend chapter 1 of the laws of 1999, relating to the New York
Health
Care Reform Act of 2000, in relation to the tobacco control and
insurance
initiatives pool
Became a law April
13, 2000, with the approval of the Governor. Passed
on
message of necessity pursuant to Article III, section
14 of the
Constitution
by a majority vote, three-fifths being present.
The
People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. Sections 85-a and 85-b of chapter 1 of the laws of 1999,
relating to the
New York Health Care Reform Act of 2000, as added
by
chapter 13 of
the laws of 2000, are amended to read as follows:
§
85-a. Section 121 of the state finance law is amended by adding
a
new subdivision
6 to read as follows:
6.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
the
taxes,
interest and penalties collected or received by the commissioner
of taxation and
finance under sections four hundred seventy-one and four
hundred seventy-one-a
of the tax law which are required to be deposited
to the
credit of the tobacco control and insurance initiatives
pool
established by
section twenty-eight hundred seven-v of the public health
law and
moneys received in the tobacco settlement fund established
by
section ninety-two-x of this chapter shall be exempt from
the provisions
of this section.
§
85-b. Subdivision 7 of section 4 of the state finance law as renum-
bered by section
2 of part C of chapter 389 of the laws of
1997 is
renumbered
subdivision 8 and a new subdivision 7 is added to read
as
follows:
7.
Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section, the taxes, inter-
est and
penalties collected or received by the commissioner of taxation
and finance under
sections four hundred seventy-one and four hundred
seventy-one-a
of the tax law which are required to be deposited to the
credit of the
tobacco control and insurance initiatives pool established
by section twenty-eight
hundred seven-v of the public health law and
moneys received in the tobacco settlement fund established
by section
ninety-two-x of this chapter shall be made pursuant to statute
but with-
out an appropriation.
§
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be
deemed to
have been in
full force and effect on and after April 1, 2000.
The Legislature
of the STATE OF NEW YORK ss:
Pursuant
to the authority vested in us by section 70-b of the Public
Officers Law,
we hereby jointly certify that this slip copy of
this
session law was
printed under our direction and, in accordance with such
section, is entitled
to be read into evidence.
JOSEPH L. BRUNO
SHELDON SILVER
Temporary
President of the Senate
Speaker of the Assembly
EXPLANATION--Matter
in italics is new; matter in
brackets [-] is old law
to be omitted.