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Assembly Bill A6960

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to tax exemption for certain insecticides

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2019-A6960 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1580
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A6567, S3565
2021-2022: S2262

2019-A6960 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a tax exemption for insecticides used in the treatment and eradication of the emerald ash borer.

2019-A6960 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6960
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law,  in  relation  to  exempting  the  sale  of
   certain insecticides from state sales and use taxes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 1115 of the tax law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision (z) to read as follows:
   (Z)  (1)  RECEIPTS FROM THE RETAIL SALE OF, AND CONSIDERATION GIVEN OR
 CONTRACTED TO BE GIVEN FOR, OR FOR THE USE OF INSECTICIDE  IN  TREATMENT
 OF  THE  SPECIES  AGRILUS PLANIPENNIS, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE EMERALD ASH
 BORER SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER THIS ARTICLE.
   (2) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "INSECTICIDE" SHALL MEAN ANY
 CHEMICAL COMPOUND GOVERNED BY THE FEDERAL  INSECTICIDE,  FUNGICIDE,  AND
 RODENTICIDE  ACT  AND  REGISTERED  WITH  THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL
 PROTECTION AGENCY PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX A OF  TITLE
 SEVEN  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  CODE,  IN WHICH THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT IS
 EMAMECTIN BENZOATE, DINOTEFURAN, IMIDACLOPRID, IMIDACLOPRID  AND  CLOTH-
 IANIDIN, OR AZADIRACHTIN.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD04726-01-9

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