Assembly Bill A3484

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Exempts poll workers from the obligation to pay New York state income tax on income earned on an election day

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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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2019-A3484 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §601, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3607
2023-2024: A898

2019-A3484 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts poll workers from the obligation to pay New York state income tax on income earned on an election day.

2019-A3484 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3484
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting poll workers  from
   the obligation to pay New York state income tax on income earned on an
   election day
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 601 of the tax law is  relettered
 subsection (j) and a new subsection (i) is added to read as follows:
   (I)   POLL  WORKERS  WORKING  ON  ELECTION  DAY.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE
 PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTIONS (A), (B), (C) AND (D) OF THIS SECTION AND  ANY
 OTHER  PROVISION  OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  FOR  TAXABLE YEARS BEGINNING AFTER
 DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY, THE  INCOME  OF  A  RESIDENT
 INDIVIDUAL  EARNED  WHILE  WORKING  AS  A POLL WORKER ON AN ELECTION DAY
 SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER THIS ARTICLE REGARDLESS OF  WHETHER  SUCH
 INCOME  IS  SUBJECT  TO  FEDERAL  INCOME  TAXATION. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS
 SUBSECTION: (1) "POLL WORKER" SHALL INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,
 ELECTION  INSPECTORS,  POLL  CLERKS  AND  ELECTION COORDINATORS; AND (2)
 "ELECTION DAY" SHALL MEAN  THE  DATE  OF  A  STATE,  LOCAL,  OR  FEDERAL
 ELECTION, INCLUDING PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00554-01-9

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