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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
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 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 the  amount  of  credit  for
   cider, wine, and liquor under the alcoholic beverage production credit
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of section  37  of  the  tax
 law,  as  amended  by  section  1 of part V of chapter 60 of the laws of
 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   (1) for the first five hundred thousand gallons of:
   I. beer[, cider, wine or liquor] produced in this state in the taxable
 year, the credit shall equal fourteen cents per gallon; [and]
   II. CIDER, ARTIFICIALLY CARBONATED SPARKLING CIDER, AND NATURAL  SPAR-
 KLING  CIDER,  CONTAINING  MORE  THAN THREE AND TWO-TENTHS PER CENTUM OF
 ALCOHOL BY VOLUME PRODUCED IN THIS STATE IN THE TAXABLE YEAR, THE CREDIT
 SHALL EQUAL THREE AND SEVENTY-NINE HUNDREDTHS CENTS PER GALLON;
   III. STILL WINE, ARTIFICIALLY CARBONATED SPARKLING WINE,  AND  NATURAL
 SPARKLING  WINE  PRODUCED  IN THIS STATE IN THE TAXABLE YEAR, THE CREDIT
 SHALL EQUAL THIRTY CENTS PER GALLON;
   IV. LIQUORS CONTAINING NOT MORE THAN TWENTY-FOUR PER CENTUM OF ALCOHOL
 BY VOLUME PRODUCED IN THIS STATE IN THE TAXABLE YEAR, THE  CREDIT  SHALL
 EQUAL TWO AND FIFTY-FOUR HUNDREDTHS CENTS PER GALLON;
   V.  LIQUORS  CONTAINING  NOT  MORE  THAN  TWO PER CENTUM OF ALCOHOL BY
 VOLUME PRODUCED IN THIS STATE IN THE  TAXABLE  YEAR,  THE  CREDIT  SHALL
 EQUAL FOUR CENTS PER GALLON;
   VI.  ALL OTHER LIQUORS PRODUCED IN THIS STATE IN THE TAXABLE YEAR, THE
 CREDIT SHALL EQUAL SIX AND FORTY-FOUR HUNDREDTHS CENTS PER GALLON; AND
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
 years beginning on or after January 1, 2020.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              
             
                          
                                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05760-01-9