Senate Bill S7034

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to organ donation

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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-S7034 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L; amd §201-d, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S1475
2019-2020: S514
2021-2022: S4477
2023-2024: S1864

2015-S7034 - Summary

Allows a taxpayer or the spouse of a taxpayer to deduct costs related to the taxpayer's organ donation; includes child care costs within such allowable costs.

2015-S7034 - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7034 - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7034

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 17, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
  and Government Operations

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to  the  donation  of  a  human
  organ;  and  to  amend  the  labor  law,  in  relation  to prohibiting
  discrimination against an individual who decides  to  donate  a  human
  organ

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

  Section 1. Paragraph 38 of subsection (c) of section 612  of  the  tax
law,  as added by chapter 565 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
follows:
  (38) An amount of up to ten thousand  dollars  if  a  taxpayer,  while
living,  donates one or more of his or her human organs to another human
being for human organ transplantation. For purposes of  this  paragraph,
"human organ" means all or part of a liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine,
lung,  or  bone marrow. A subtract modification allowed under this para-
graph shall be claimed in the taxable year  in  which  the  human  organ
transplantation occurs.
  (A)  A  taxpayer  shall  claim the subtract modification allowed under
this paragraph only once and such subtract modification shall be claimed
for only the following unreimbursed expenses which are incurred  by  the
taxpayer  OR SPOUSE OF THE TAXPAYER, and related to the taxpayer's organ
donation:
  (i) travel expenses;
  (ii) lodging expenses; [and]
  (iii) lost wages[.]; AND
  (IV) CHILD CARE COSTS;
  (B) The subtract modification allowed under this paragraph  shall  not
be claimed by a part-year resident or a non-resident of this state.
  S  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section 201-d of the labor law, as added by
chapter 776 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
  2. Unless otherwise provided by law, it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any
employer  or  employment agency to refuse to hire, employ or license, or

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

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2015-S7034A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L; amd §201-d, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S1475
2019-2020: S514
2021-2022: S4477
2023-2024: S1864

2015-S7034A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows a taxpayer or the spouse of a taxpayer to deduct costs related to the taxpayer's organ donation; includes child care costs within such allowable costs.

2015-S7034A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7034A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                 7034--A

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 17, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
  and Government Operations -- reported favorably  from  said  committee
  and  committed  to  the  Committee on Finance -- committee discharged,
  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
  committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  tax law, in relation to the donation of a human
  organ

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  38 of subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax
law, as added by chapter 565 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read  as
follows:
  (38)  An  amount  of  up  to ten thousand dollars if a taxpayer, while
living, donates one or more of his or her human organs to another  human
being  for  human organ transplantation. For purposes of this paragraph,
"human organ" means all or part of a liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine,
lung, or bone marrow. A subtract modification allowed under  this  para-
graph  shall  be  claimed  in  the taxable year in which the human organ
transplantation occurs.
  (A) A taxpayer shall claim the  subtract  modification  allowed  under
this paragraph only once and such subtract modification shall be claimed
for  only  the following unreimbursed expenses which are incurred by the
taxpayer OR SPOUSE OF THE TAXPAYER, and related to the taxpayer's  organ
donation:
  (i) travel expenses;
  (ii) lodging expenses; [and]
  (iii) lost wages[.]; AND
  (IV) CHILD CARE COSTS;
  (B)  The  subtract modification allowed under this paragraph shall not
be claimed by a part-year resident or a non-resident of this state.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14726-02-6
              

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