Senate Bill S8120

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires medallion owners to manage payments of the congestion surcharge

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Current 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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2023-S8120 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8888
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1299-b, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5918
2021-2022: S3663

2023-S8120 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires medallion agents to manage payments of the congestion surcharge.

2023-S8120 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8120 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8120
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 requiring  medallion  agents
   to manage payments of the congestion surcharge
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (a) of  section  1299-b  of  the  tax  law,  as
 amended  by  section  3  of part R of chapter 59 of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,  any  person
 that  dispatches  a motor vehicle by any means that provides transporta-
 tion that is subject to a surcharge imposed by this  article,  including
 transportation  network  companies as defined in article forty-four-B of
 the vehicle and traffic law, shall be liable for the  surcharge  imposed
 by  this article, EXCEPT WHERE AGENTS LICENSED BY THE TAXI AND LIMOUSINE
 COMMISSION ARE AUTHORIZED ON BEHALF OF MEDALLION OWNERS  TO  MANAGE  THE
 MEDALLIONS  AND/OR MAKE PAYMENTS OF THE SURCHARGE AS LAID OUT IN ARTICLE
 TWENTY-NINE-A OF THIS CHAPTER, SUCH AGENTS ARE SOLELY LIABLE FOR  MAKING
 THESE  PAYMENTS  ABSENT  A  GOOD FAITH DISPUTE OF THE AMOUNT OWED. WHERE
 AGENTS LICENSED BY THE TAXI AND LIMOUSINE COMMISSION ARE  AUTHORIZED  ON
 BEHALF OF MEDALLION OWNERS TO MANAGE THE MEDALLIONS AND/OR MAKE PAYMENTS
 OF  THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY IMPROVEMENT ZONE SURCHARGE
 SUCH AGENTS ARE ENTITLED  TO  MAKE  BATCH  PAYMENTS  OF  ALL  MEDALLIONS
 MANAGED  WITH  AN  ACCOUNTING  OF EACH MEDALLION TRIP REPRESENTED IN THE
 BATCH PAYMENT, except that in the case of taxicab trips and HAIL vehicle
 trips that are also subject to tax pursuant to article twenty-nine-A  of
 this chapter:
   (1) [a] A TSP that collected the trip record and trip fare shall with-
 hold  from daily collections the surcharges due on such trips, and shall
 withhold from such collections the surcharges due on cash trips. If  the
 TSP's  daily  collections, after retaining any fees to which it is enti-
 tled pursuant to a contract with such  taxicab  owner  or  HAIL  vehicle
 owner,  are insufficient to cover the surcharges due on such cash trips,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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