Senate Bill S6633

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to providing an exemption for drugs and medicines for companion and farm animals

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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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2015-S6633 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9321
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง1115, 1107 & 1210, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6258, A4950
2019-2020: S2005, A602
2021-2022: S522, A1200
2023-2024: S401, A756

2015-S6633 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing an exemption for drugs and medicines for companion and farm animals.

2015-S6633 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6633 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6633

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 2, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- 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 providing an  exemption  for
  drugs and medicines for companion and farm animals

  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 3-a to read as follows:
  (3-A)  DRUGS AND MEDICINES INTENDED FOR USE, INTERNALLY OR EXTERNALLY,
IN THE  CURE,  MITIGATION,  TREATMENT  OR  PREVENTION  OF  ILLNESSES  OR
DISEASES IN COMPANION ANIMALS, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION
THREE  HUNDRED  FIFTY  OF  THE  AGRICULTURE  AND  MARKETS  LAW, AND FARM
ANIMALS, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THREE  HUNDRED  FIFTY
OF  THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT (INCLUDING COMPO-
NENT PARTS THEREOF) AND SUPPLIES REQUIRED FOR SUCH USE OR TO CORRECT  OR
ALLEVIATE PHYSICAL INCAPACITY.
  S  2.  Subdivision  (b)  of  section 1107 of the tax law is amended by
adding a new clause 12 to read as follows:
  (12) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW, THE  EXEMPTION  PROVIDED  BY
PARAGRAPH  THREE-A  OF SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTEEN
OF THIS ARTICLE RELATING TO DRUGS AND  MEDICINES  INTENDED  FOR  USE  IN
COMPANION  ANIMALS  AND  FARM  ANIMALS SHALL BE APPLICABLE PURSUANT TO A
LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY  A  CITY  SUBJECT  TO  THE
PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  CLAUSE.  SUCH CITY IS EMPOWERED TO ADOPT OR REPEAL
SUCH A LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION. SUCH ADOPTION OR REPEAL SHALL
ALSO BE DEEMED TO AMEND ANY LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE OR  RESOLUTION  ENACTED
BY  SUCH  A CITY IMPOSING TAXES PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY OF SUBDIVISION
(A) OF SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED TEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
  S 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the tax law, as
amended by section 3 of part Z of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2015,  is
amended to read as follows:
  (1) Either, all of the taxes described in article twenty-eight of this
chapter,  at  the same uniform rate, as to which taxes all provisions of

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

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