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Senate Bill S214

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Exempts libraries from the imposition of the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax

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2015-S214 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A218
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง800, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S6079, A8868
2013-2014: S1891, A1665

2015-S214 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts libraries from the imposition of the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax.

2015-S214 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S214 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   214

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the exemption  of  libraries
  from the imposition of the metropolitan commuter transportation mobil-
  ity tax

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

  Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subsection (b) of section  800  of  the  tax
law,  as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2011,
is amended to read as follows:
  (4) Any eligible educational  institution.  An  "eligible  educational
institution"  shall  mean any public school district, a board of cooper-
ative educational services, a public elementary or secondary  school,  a
school  approved  pursuant  to article eighty-five or eighty-nine of the
education law to serve students with disabilities of school  age,  or  a
nonpublic  elementary  or  secondary school that provides instruction in
grade one or above, ALL PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEMS AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO OF THE  EDUCATION  LAW,  AND  ALL
PUBLIC  AND  FREE  ASSOCIATION  LIBRARIES  AS  SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN
SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02163-01-5

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