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Assembly Bill A5782

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Excludes from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker

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2025-A5782 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6184

2025-A5782 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker, thereby exempting such payments from state income tax in like manner as a pension.

2025-A5782 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5782
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. NORBER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Ways and Means
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  tax  law, in relation to excluding from federal
   adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volun-
   teer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker

   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 48 to read as follows:
   (48) THE AMOUNT OF ANY SERVICE AWARD PAID TO ANY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER
 PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ELEVEN-A OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW AND THE AMOUNT
 OF ANY SERVICE AWARD PAID TO ANY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER PURSUANT  TO
 ARTICLE ELEVEN-AA OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09786-01-5

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