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Senate Bill S2238

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for a personal income tax deduction for certain well water testing

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2023-S2238 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6332
Current Committee:
Senate Budget And Revenue
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8878, A10375
2025-2026: S3506, A6095

2023-S2238 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for a personal income tax deduction, once every three years up to six hundred dollars, for the testing of potable well water by a certified laboratory.

2023-S2238 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2238 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2238
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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  providing  for  a  personal
   income tax deduction for certain well water testing
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended  by
 adding a new paragraph 47 to read as follows:
   (47)  (A)  EXPENSES  PAID OR INCURRED DURING THE TAXABLE YEAR, UP TO A
 LIMIT OF SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS, FOR THE TESTING OF POTABLE WELL WATER  FOR
 ANY  SUBSTANCES  THAT  ARE  TO  BE  MONITORED PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN
 HUNDRED TWELVE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND THE  FEDERAL  SAFE  DRINKING
 WATER  ACT (42 U.S.C. § 300G-1). SUCH MODIFICATION SHALL ONLY BE CLAIMED
 BY A PROPERTY OWNER ONCE EVERY THREE YEARS.
   (B) TO QUALIFY FOR THIS MODIFICATION, THE WELL WATER TESTING  MUST  BE
 CONDUCTED  BY  A  STATE  CERTIFIED LABORATORY. SUCH CERTIFIED LABORATORY
 MUST NOTIFY THE PROPERTY OWNER IF THE  WELL  WATER  SAMPLE  EXCEEDS  THE
 STANDARDS FOR POTABLE DRINKING WATER AS SET BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
 THE PROPERTY OWNER MUST REPORT ANY VIOLATION OF THE STANDARDS FOR DRINK-
 ING WATER TO THE LOCAL MUNICIPAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
 years  commencing  on or after the first of January in the year in which
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05802-01-3

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