NY State Senate Bill 2013-S6421

Senate Bill S6421

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to repealing the metropolitan commuter transportation district supplemental registration fee; repealer

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Jan 22, 2014	referred to finance

2013-S6421 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Rpld Art 17-C, V & T L; amd §92-ff, St Fin L

2013-S6421 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the metropolitan commuter transportation district supplemental registration fee.

2013-S6421 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S6421          REVISED MEMO 01/23/14

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to
the metropolitan transportation authority financial assistance fund;
and to repeal article 17-c of the vehicle and traffic law relating to
the metropolitan commuter transportation district supplemental
registration fee

PURPOSE:

To remove the metropolitan transportation district supplemental
registration fee

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 repeals Article 17-C of the Vehicle and Traffic Law.

Section 2 amends subdivision 3 and paragraph a of subdivision 6 of
section 92-ff of the state finance law to remove the supplemental
registration fee from the Metropolitan transportation authority
financial assistance fund.

Section 3 sets an immediate effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:

In 2009, the metropolitan transportation district supplemental
registration fee was enacted to eliminate a large budget gap due to
mismanagement and the Great Recession. Since 2009, this fee has cost
hard-working New Yorkers approximately $724 million. The surcharge
increased fees by 5% for licenses and permits and increased the cost
of automobile registrations by $25 for every New Yorker in the MTA
region whether or not they even used the MTA system. This is a
regressive cost for New Yorkers that is making it harder to live and
do business in our state. Repealing this fee would save New Yorkers
approximately $181 million annually.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

When fully implemented this bill will save business owners, small
farmers and individuals who drive our economy an estimated $ 181
million annually in taxes.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect immediately.

2013-S6421 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6421

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GIPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  the  metropolitan
  transportation  authority  financial  assistance  fund;  and to repeal
  article 17-c of the vehicle and traffic law relating to the  metropol-
  itan commuter transportation district supplemental registration fee

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

  Section 1. Article 17-C of the vehicle and traffic law is REPEALED.
  S 2. Subdivision 3 and paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 92-ff
of the state finance law, as added by section 1 of part G of chapter  25
of the laws of 2009, are amended to read as follows:
  3.  Such fund shall consist of all moneys collected therefore or cred-
ited or transferred thereto from any  other  fund,  account  or  source,
including,  without  limitation, the revenues derived from the metropol-
itan commuter transportation mobility tax  imposed  by  article  twenty-
three of the tax law; revenues derived from the special supplemental tax
on  passenger  car rentals imposed by section eleven hundred sixty-six-a
of the tax law;  revenues  derived  from  the  transportation  surcharge
imposed  by  article  twenty-nine-A  of  the  tax law; [the supplemental
registration fees imposed by article  seventeen-C  of  the  vehicle  and
traffic  law;] and the supplemental metropolitan commuter transportation
district license fees imposed by section five hundred three of the vehi-
cle and traffic law. Any interest received by the comptroller on  moneys
on  deposit  in  the  metropolitan  transportation  authority  financial
assistance fund shall be retained in and become a part of such fund.
  (a) The "metropolitan  transportation  authority  aid  trust  account"
shall  consist  of revenues required to be deposited therein pursuant to
the provisions of section eleven hundred sixty-six-a  of  the  tax  law;
article  twenty-nine-A of the tax law; [article seventeen-C of the vehi-
cle and traffic law;] and section five hundred three of the vehicle  and
traffic  law,  and all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from
any other fund or source pursuant to law.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

                                                           LBD13278-02-4

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