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Assembly Bill A6816

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing a tax exemption for fire extinguishers and fire, heat and carbon monoxide alarms purchased for residential use

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2025-A6816 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5468
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9653, S8132
2019-2020: A2443, S5617
2021-2022: A777, S1382
2023-2024: A5951, S6759

2025-A6816 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows a tax exemption for taxpayers in the amount of the purchase price of a fire extinguisher, fire alarm, heat alarm or carbon monoxide alarm purchased for residential use during the month of October.

2025-A6816 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6816
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to  allowing  a  tax  exemption
   with  respect to fire extinguishers and fire, heat and carbon monoxide
   alarms purchased for residential use

   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 47 to read as follows:
   (47) FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, FIRE ALARMS, HEAT ALARMS OR  CARBON  MONOXIDE
 ALARMS PURCHASED FOR RESIDENTIAL USE DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall apply to eligible fire  extinguishers,  fire
 alarms,  heat  alarms  and  carbon monoxide alarms purchased on or after
 such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09131-01-5

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