Senate Bill S8232

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the creation of the cigarette tax enforcement fund; appropriation

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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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2017-S8232 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4280
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Appropriations
Laws Affected:
Amd §§472, 482, 1846, 483 & 1814, Tax L; add §99-ee, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5701, A8064
2019-2020: S3540, A3104

2017-S8232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the creation of the cigarette tax enforcement fund; makes an appropriation therefor.

2017-S8232 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8232
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 20, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law,  in  relation  to
   the  creation  of  the  cigarette  tax enforcement fund; and making an
   appropriation therefor
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 472 of the tax law, as amended by
 chapter 629 of the laws of 1996, and as further amended by  section  104
 of  part  A  of  chapter  62  of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. The commissioner shall prescribe, prepare  and  furnish  stamps  of
 such denominations and quantities as may be necessary for the payment of
 the  tax  on cigarettes imposed by this article, PLUS THE PAYMENT BY THE
 AGENT OF A CONCURRENT EXPENSE ALLOWANCE FOR THE CIGARETTE  TAX  ENFORCE-
 MENT  FUND  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT TO SECTION NINETY-NINE-EE OF THE STATE
 FINANCE LAW OF FOUR CENTS PER STAMP WHICH SHALL BE DEPOSITED PURSUANT TO
 SUBDIVISION (C) OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE,  and
 may from time to time and as often as he deems advisable provide for the
 issuance  and exclusive use of stamps of a new design and forbid the use
 of stamps of any other  design,  in  the  manner  and  with  the  effect
 provided  in  section  two  hundred  seventy-four  of  this chapter. The
 commissioner shall make provisions for the sale of such stamps  at  such
 places and at such times as he may deem necessary and may license agents
 for  such  purpose.  The commissioner may license dealers in cigarettes,
 who maintain separate warehousing facilities for the purpose of  receiv-
 ing  and distributing cigarettes and conducting their business, who have
 received commitments from at least  two  cigarette  manufacturers  whose
 aggregate  market  share is at least forty percent of the New York state
 cigarette market, and importers, exporters and  manufacturers  of  ciga-
 rettes,  and  other persons within or without the state as agents to buy
 or affix stamps to be used in paying the  tax  herein  imposed,  but  an
 agent  shall  at  all  times have the right to appoint the person in his
 employ who is to affix the stamps to any cigarettes  under  the  agent's
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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