Senate Bill S993

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Makes seed purchased to grow food for personal consumption exempt from sales and use taxes

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • 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-S993 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2471
2011-2012: S836
2013-2014: S2247
2015-2016: S3417
2017-2018: S531

2019-S993 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes seed purchased to grow food for personal consumption exempt from sales and use taxes.

2019-S993 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S993 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    993
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
   and Government Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to granting a sales and compen-
   sating use tax exemption for the purchase of seeds to be cultivated to
   grow food for the purchaser's own or family consumption
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law  is  amended
 by adding a new paragraph 1-a to read as follows:
   (1-A)  SEEDS  WHICH  WHEN  CULTIVATED PRODUCE FOOD, WHEN THE PURCHASER
 THEREOF WILL USE THE FOOD PRODUCED THEREFROM FOR HIS OR HER OWN PERSONAL
 OR FAMILY'S HUMAN CONSUMPTION. THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL  NOT  APPLY  TO  ANY
 SEEDS RESOLD BY THE PURCHASER THEREOF.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD03081-01-9

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