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Assembly Bill A1064

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Gives state income tax credit to volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance corps in good standing up to $2500

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2025-A1064 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1123
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §606, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4047
2011-2012: A4593
2013-2014: A4705
2015-2016: A1912
2017-2018: A1275
2019-2020: A1402
2021-2022: A5313
2023-2024: A2654, S6058

2025-A1064 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Gives state income tax credit to volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance corps in good standing up to $2500; must be in good standing for a minimum of five years and maintain continued eligibility.

2025-A1064 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1064
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO, BENDETT, BRABENEC, K. BROWN, DeSTEFANO,
   DURSO,  LEMONDES,  MANKTELOW,  McDONOUGH,  MIKULIN, MILLER, MORINELLO,
   SMULLEN, TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways  and
   Means
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  tax  law, in relation to providing for a credit
   against personal income tax for volunteer firefighters and members  of
   volunteer ambulance corps
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 606 of the tax law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subsection (qqq) to read as follows:
   (QQQ)  VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS AND MEMBERS OF VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS
 SERVICE CREDIT. IN THE CASE OF A MEMBER OF A VOLUNTEER  FIRE  DEPARTMENT
 OR A MEMBER OF A VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS WHO HAS BEEN A MEMBER IN GOOD
 STANDING WITH A VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT FOR A MINIMUM OF FIVE YEARS AND WHO
 MAINTAINS  CONTINUOUS ELIGIBILITY, IN THIS STATE, THERE SHALL BE ALLOWED
 A CREDIT AGAINST ANY INCOME TAX OWED BY SUCH MEMBER IN AN  AMOUNT  WHICH
 IS  EQUAL  TO  THE SUM OF TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS OR THE TOTAL
 AMOUNT OF THE TAX OWED BY THE TAXPAYER IF LESS THAN  TWO  THOUSAND  FIVE
 HUNDRED DOLLARS, WHICHEVER IS LOWER.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a  law  and  shall  apply  to
 taxable years beginning on or after such date. Effective immediately the
 commissioner of taxation and finance is authorized to promulgate any and
 all  rules  and  regulations  and  take  any other measures necessary to
 implement this act on its effective date on or before such date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02694-01-5

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