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Senate Bill S8314

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes a tax exemption for an active volunteer firefighter and a volunteer ambulance worker

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2019-S8314 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Budget And Revenue
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S1960

2019-S8314 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a fifteen thousand dollar tax exemption for an active volunteer firefighter and a volunteer ambulance worker for the year 2020.

2019-S8314 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8314 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8314
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 11, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a tax exemption
   for an active volunteer firefighter and a volunteer ambulance worker
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subsection (b) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 42 to read as follows:
   (42) FOR THE TAXABLE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWENTY, ANY INCOME RECEIVED  BY
 AN  INDIVIDUAL  WHO SERVED AS AN ACTIVE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AS DEFINED
 IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTEEN OF THE GENERAL MUNICI-
 PAL LAW OR AS A VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER  AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION
 FOURTEEN  OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN-K OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW
 FOR THE ENTIRE TAXABLE YEAR OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY, TO THE EXTENT INCLU-
 DIBLE IN GROSS INCOME FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES, BUT NOT TO EXCEED
 FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16219-02-0

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