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Assembly Bill A7969

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Excludes certain training stipends for volunteer firefighters from state income tax

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2025-A7969 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6002
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L

2025-A7969 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes certain training stipends for volunteer firefighters from state income tax.

2025-A7969 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7969
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to excluding  certain  training
   stipends for volunteer firefighters from state income tax
 
   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)  TRAINING  STIPENDS  RECEIVED UNDER SECTION TWO HUNDRED-AA OF THE
 GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, TO THE  EXTENT  INCLUDABLE  IN  FEDERAL  ADJUSTED
 GROSS INCOME.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to the
 taxable year in which it shall take effect and to all subsequent taxable
 years.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09870-01-5

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