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Assembly Bill A2444A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts the purchase of certain oral hygiene products from the payment of sales tax

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2025-A2444 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S985
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8415, S8349

2025-A2444 - Summary

Exempts toothpaste, toothbrushes and dental floss from the payment of sales tax.

2025-A2444 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2444
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced   by   M.   of   A.   WOERNER,  SEAWRIGHT,  ANGELINO,  JONES,
   BICHOTTE HERMELYN, RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
   Ways and Means
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting from the payment
   of sales tax the purchase of oral hygiene products

   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 3-c to read as follows:
   (3-C) ORAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS, INCLUDING TOOTHBRUSHES, TOOTHPASTE, TOOTH
 POWDERS, MOUTHWASH, DENTAL FLOSS, OR OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
 years beginning on or after the first of  January  next  succeeding  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.
                                                            LBD02212-01-5

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2025-A2444A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S985
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8415, S8349

2025-A2444A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts toothpaste, toothbrushes and dental floss from the payment of sales tax.

2025-A2444A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2444--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced   by   M.   of   A.   WOERNER,  SEAWRIGHT,  ANGELINO,  JONES,
   BICHOTTE HERMELYN, RAGA,  McDONALD,  KAY,  SHIMSKY,  SAYEGH,  GRIFFIN,
   DeSTEFANO,  HAWLEY,  CHANG,  PALMESANO,  ROSENTHAL, ZACCARO, LEMONDES,
   SIMPSON, LUNSFORD,  ROMERO,  DAIS,  HYNDMAN,  YEGER,  KASSAY,  DAVILA,
   O'PHARROW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
   --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting from  the  payment
   of sales tax the purchase of certain oral hygiene products
 
   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 3-c to read as follows:
   (3-C)  CERTAIN  ORAL  HYGIENE  PRODUCTS,  SPECIFICALLY,  TOOTHBRUSHES,
 TOOTHPASTE, AND DENTAL FLOSS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first  day  of  the  sales  tax
 quarterly period, as described in subdivision (b) of section 1136 of the
 tax  law,  next  commencing  at  least 90 days after this act shall have
 become a law and shall apply to sales made on or after such date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02212-03-5

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