S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10487
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 27, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Weinstein)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to application of a lien or
pledge for the benefit of certain bondholders to amounts withheld from
certain taxes, penalties and interest imposed by the city of New York
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph 5 of subdivision (c) of
section 1261 of the tax law, as amended by section 2 of part RR of chap-
ter 57 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
(ii) After withholding the taxes, penalties and interest imposed by
the city of New York on and after August first, two thousand eight as
provided in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, AND SUBJECT TO ANY LIEN
OR PLEDGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF BONDHOLDERS OF THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSI-
TIONAL FINANCE AUTHORITY, the comptroller shall withhold a portion of
such taxes, penalties and interest sufficient to deposit annually into
the central business district tolling capital lockbox established pursu-
ant to section five hundred fifty-three-j of the public authorities law:
(A) in state fiscal year two thousand nineteen - two thousand twenty,
one hundred twenty-seven million five hundred thousand dollars; (B) in
state fiscal year two thousand twenty - two thousand twenty-one, one
hundred seventy million dollars; (C) in state fiscal year two thousand
twenty-one - two thousand twenty-two and every succeeding state fiscal
year, an amount equal to one hundred one percent of the amount deposited
in the immediately preceding state fiscal year. The funds shall be
deposited monthly in equal installments. During the period that the
comptroller is required to withhold amounts and make payments described
in this paragraph, the city of New York has no right, title or interest
in or to those taxes, penalties and interest required to be paid into
the above referenced central business district tolling capital lockbox.
In addition, SUBJECT TO ANY LIEN OR PLEDGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF BONDHOLD-
ERS OF THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSITIONAL FINANCE AUTHORITY, the comptroller
shall withhold a portion of such taxes, penalties and interest in the
amount of one hundred fifty million dollars, to be withheld in four
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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quarterly installments on January fifteenth, April fifteenth, July
fifteenth and October fifteenth of each year, and shall deposit such
amounts into the New York State Agency Trust Fund, Distressed Provider
Assistance Account.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
ments to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph 5 of subdivision (c) of section
1261 of the tax law made by section one of this act shall not affect the
expiration of such subparagraph and shall be deemed to expire therewith.