Senate Bill S2196

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Eliminates sales tax on clothing and footwear regardless of cost

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

Do you support this bill?

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.
Actions
Votes

co-Sponsors

2009-S2196 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S1988
2013-2014: S4420
2015-2016: S1075
2017-2018: S1501

2009-S2196 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates sales tax on clothing and footwear regardless of cost.

2009-S2196 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2196 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2196

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 13, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. GOLDEN, DeFRANCISCO, O. JOHNSON, LAVALLE, PADAVAN,
  ROBACH, VOLKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to
  be  committed  to the Committee on Investigations and Government Oper-
  ations

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to eliminating sales tax on all
  clothing and footwear

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph 30 of subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax
law, as amended by section 84 of part A of chapter 56  of  the  laws  of
1998, is amended to read as follows:
  (30)  Clothing  and  footwear  [for which the receipt or consideration
given or contracted to be given is less than one hundred ten dollars per
article of clothing, per pair of shoes or other articles of footwear] or
[per] AN item used or consumed to make or repair such clothing and which
becomes a physical component part of such clothing.
  S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07784-01-9

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.