Senate Bill S116

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts veterans from the payment of certain fees relating to corporations

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee


  • 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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2017-S116 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6835
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Business Corporation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §104-B, BC L; add §104-B, N-PC L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5529
2019-2020: S595, A2121
2021-2022: S1504, A7317
2023-2024: S3306, A1354

2017-S116 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts veterans from the payment of certain fees relating to corporations.

2017-S116 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S116 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    116
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the business corporations  law  and  the  not-for-profit
   corporation law, in relation to exempting veterans from the payment of
   certain fees relating to corporations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The business corporation law is amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 104-B to read as follows:
 § 104-B. VETERAN EXEMPTION FROM FEES.
   (A)  AS  USED  IN  THIS SECTION, "VETERAN" MEANS A MEMBER OF THE ARMED
 FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES WHO SERVED THEREIN IN TIME OF WAR,  WHO  WAS
 HONORABLY DISCHARGED OR RELEASED UNDER HONORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES FROM SUCH
 SERVICE,  WHO  IS  A  CITIZEN  OF THE UNITED STATES OR AN ALIEN LAWFULLY
 ADMITTED FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND WHO IS A RESI-
 DENT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AT  THE  TIME  OF  UNDERTAKING  AN  ACTION
 SUBJECT TO A FEE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED FOUR-A OF THIS ARTICLE.
   (B)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, NO VETERAN SHALL BE
 REQUIRED TO PAY THE FEES  OTHERWISE  REQUIRED  BY  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
 FOUR-A  OF  THIS ARTICLE WITHIN FIVE YEARS OF BEING HONORABLY DISCHARGED
 OR RELEASED UNDER HONORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES FROM MILITARY SERVICE.
   (C) STATUS AS AN ELIGIBLE VETERAN PURSUANT TO THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE
 DOCUMENTED  PURSUANT TO RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE COMMIS-
 SIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
   § 2. The not-for-profit corporation law is amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 104-B to read as follows:
 § 104-B. VETERAN EXEMPTION FROM FEES.
   (A)  AS  USED  IN  THIS SECTION, "VETERAN" MEANS A MEMBER OF THE ARMED
 FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES WHO SERVED THEREIN IN TIME OF WAR,  WHO  WAS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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