Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Dec 20, 2019 |
signed chap.692 |
Dec 17, 2019 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 19, 2019 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.1759 substituted for s2826 |
Jun 18, 2019 |
referred to rules delivered to senate passed assembly home rule request |
Jun 17, 2019 |
ordered to third reading rules cal.444 rules report cal.444 reported reported referred to rules |
Jan 29, 2019 |
referred to ways and means |
Assembly Bill A3271
Signed By Governor2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
MORINELLO
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
Michael J. Norris
David McDonough
Brian D. Miller
Peter Lawrence
2019-A3271 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-A3271 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3271 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to imposing an additional one percent occupancy tax in the city of Niagara Falls to benefit the Discover Niagara shuttle THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 9 of section 1202-l of the tax law, as amended by chapter 247 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows: (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the city of Niagara Falls is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and amend local laws imposing in such city a tax in addition to any tax authorized and imposed pursuant to this article such as the legislature has or would have the power and authority to impose on persons occupying hotel and motel rooms in such city. The rate of such tax shall be [five] SIX per centum [(5%)] (6%) per day of the rent or charge for each room; provided, however, such tax shall not be applicable to a permanent resi- dent of a hotel. For the purposes of this section, the term "permanent resident" shall mean a person occupying any room or rooms in a hotel for at least thirty consecutive days. (9) Revenues resulting from the imposition of tax authorized by this act shall be paid into the treasury of the city of Niagara Falls and shall be credited to and deposited in the general fund account of such city and shall be used only for the promotion of convention activities and tourism as follows: (a) from the first four [percentum] PER CENTUM (4%), eighty percent of such revenue from this tax shall be allocated and paid to a not-for-profit corporation under contract with the county for the promotion of tourism in the county; fifteen percent of such revenue shall be retained by the city of Niagara Falls for any city purpose; and the remaining five percent of said first four [percentum] EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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