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Assembly Bill A8357

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Exempts medically necessary equipment for use in personal motor vehicles from sales and use taxes

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2013-A8357 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1907
2011-2012: A7419

2013-A8357 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts medically necessary equipment for use in personal motor vehicles from sales and use taxes.

2013-A8357 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8357

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 9, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Ways and Means

AN  ACT  to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting medically neces-
  sary equipment for use in personal motor vehicles from sales  and  use
  tax

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

  Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law  is  amended
by adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows:
  (44)  MEDICALLY  NECESSARY EQUIPMENT FOR PERSONAL MOTOR VEHICLES.  FOR
THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, MEDICALLY NECESSARY EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN
PERSONAL MOTOR VEHICLES SHALL MEAN ANY EQUIPMENT FOR USE BY  INDIVIDUALS
WHO,  BY REASON OF ILLNESS, AGE, INJURY, CONGENITAL MALFUNCTION OR OTHER
PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY INCAPACITY OR  DISABILITY,  ARE  UNABLE,  WITHOUT
SPECIAL AND UNIQUE EQUIPMENT, TO DRIVE OR OPERATE A PERSONAL MOTOR VEHI-
CLE.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first day of a sales tax quar-
terly period, as described in subdivision (b) of section 1136 of the tax
law, next commencing after this act shall have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
A                                                          LBD11187-01-3

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