Assembly Bill A1498

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Increases the tax credit allowable to volunteer firefighters, volunteer ambulance workers, and volunteer emergency medical personnel

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  • 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

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2011-A1498 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง606, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10527
2013-2014: A6207

2011-A1498 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the tax credit allowable to volunteer firefighters, volunteer ambulance workers and volunteer emergency medical personnel.

2011-A1498 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1498

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 10, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TEDISCO  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A.
  BURLING, BUTLER, CONTE, CROUCH, FITZPATRICK,  KOLB,  REILICH  --  read
  once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to increasing the tax credit to
  volunteer  firefighters,  volunteer  ambulance  workers  and volunteer
  emergency medical personnel under certain circumstances

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

  Section  1. The subsection heading and paragraph 1 of subsection (e-1)
of section 606 of the tax law, as added by section 1 of part U of  chap-
ter 62 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  Volunteer   firefighters'  [and],  VOLUNTEER  ambulance  workers'  AND
MEMBERS OF A VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SQUAD credit. (1)  For
taxable  years beginning on and after January first, two thousand seven,
a resident taxpayer who serves as an  active  volunteer  firefighter  as
defined in subdivision one of section two hundred fifteen of the general
municipal law [or], as a volunteer ambulance worker as defined in subdi-
vision fourteen of section two hundred nineteen-k of the general munici-
pal  law  OR AS A MEMBER OF A VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SQUAD
shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed by this article  equal
to [two] THREE hundred dollars. In order to receive this credit a volun-
teer  firefighter [or], volunteer ambulance worker OR MEMBER OF A VOLUN-
TEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SQUAD must  have  been  active  for  the
entire taxable year for which the credit is sought.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02049-01-1

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