Senate Bill S317

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Increases to $10,000 the contribution that a resident taxpayer may make to family tuition accounts for each child during a taxable year

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations 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-S317 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S317

2017-S317 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the contribution that a resident taxpayer may make to family tuition accounts for each beneficiary thereof during a taxable year.

2017-S317 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S317 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    317
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PERALTA -- 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  increasing  the  authorized
   resident  taxpayer  contribution to family tuition accounts to $10,000
   per taxable year for each beneficiary thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  32 of subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax
 law, as amended by chapter 81 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (32) Contributions made during the taxable year by an account owner to
 one or more family tuition accounts established under the New York state
 college choice tuition savings program provided for under article  four-
 teen-A  of  the  education law, to the extent not deductible or eligible
 for credit for federal  income  tax  purposes,  provided,  however,  the
 exclusion  provided  for in this paragraph; FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR HEAD OF
 HOUSEHOLD, shall not exceed [five] TEN thousand dollars [for an individ-
 ual or head of household] FOR THE ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS OF EACH DESIGNATED
 BENEFICIARY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION  SIX  HUNDRED  NINETY-FIVE-B  OF  THE
 EDUCATION LAW, and for married couples who file joint tax returns, shall
 not  exceed [ten] TWENTY thousand dollars FOR THE ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS OF
 EACH DESIGNATED BENEFICIARY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION SIX  HUNDRED  NINETY-
 FIVE-B  OF  THE  EDUCATION  LAW;  provided, further, that such exclusion
 shall be available only to the  account  owner  and  not  to  any  other
 person.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00120-01-7

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