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Assembly Bill A1363

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires certain technology on cigarette tax stamps to prevent counterfeiting

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2025-A1363 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §472, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7257
2023-2024: A1638

2025-A1363 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the use of color shifting dyes, unique serial numbers, tamper-evident surface cuts, and stamp/meter impressions that can be read by scanning devices on cigarette tax stamps to prevent counterfeiting.

2025-A1363 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1363
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring certain technology
   on cigarette tax stamps to prevent counterfeiting
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  472  of  the  tax law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A. EVERY ADHESIVE OR METER STAMP ISSUED UNDER  THIS  SECTION  SHALL:
 (A)  BE PREPARED USING DYES WHICH CREATE A COLOR-SHIFTING EFFECT VISIBLE
 TO THE NAKED EYE WHEN TILTED; (B)  BEAR  A  UNIQUE  NONREPEATING  SERIAL
 NUMBER FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PACKAGE OF CIGARETTES; (C) BEAR A TAMPER-EVI-
 DENT  SURFACE CUT; AND (D) BE GENERATED BY A TECHNOLOGY CAPABLE OF BEING
 READ BY A SCANNING OR SIMILAR DEVICE AND SHALL  BE  ENCRYPTED  WITH,  AT
 MINIMUM, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
   (I) THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE AGENT AFFIXING THE STAMP;
   (II) THE DATE THE STAMP WAS AFFIXED;
   (III) THE DENOMINATED VALUE OF THE STAMP; AND
   (IV)  THE UNIQUE NONREPEATING SERIAL NUMBER REQUIRED PURSUANT TO PARA-
 GRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment  and/or repeal of any rule necessary for the implementation of this
 act on its effective date are authorized to be made on  or  before  such
 date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03925-01-5

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