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Senate Bill S10537

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts certain residents of the central business district from central business district tolls

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2025-S10537 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11525
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1704-a, V & T L; amd §606, Tax L

2025-S10537 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority to exempt certain residents of the central business district from the central business district toll.

2025-S10537 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10537 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10537
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the tax law, in relation
   to exempting certain residents of the central business  district  from
   central business district tolls
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1704-a of the vehicle and  traffic
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C)  THE  TRIBOROUGH  BRIDGE  AND  TUNNEL AUTHORITY SHALL IMPLEMENT AN
 EXEMPTION FROM CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT  TOLLS  FOR  RESIDENTS  OF  THE
 CENTRAL  BUSINESS  DISTRICT  WHO  ARE  ELIGIBLE FOR THE CENTRAL BUSINESS
 DISTRICT TOLL CREDIT ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION (JJJ) OF SECTION
 SIX HUNDRED SIX OF THE TAX LAW. THE TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE AND TUNNEL AUTHOR-
 ITY SHALL ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR SUCH RESIDENTS TO CERTIFY  THAT  THEY
 ARE  ELIGIBLE  FOR  SUCH CREDIT, INCLUDING PROCEDURES FOR EXCLUDING FROM
 THE EXEMPTION TOLLS THAT WOULD CONSTITUTE A TRADE  OR  BUSINESS  EXPENSE
 UNDER SECTION ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
   § 2. Paragraph 1 of subsection (jjj) of section 606 of the tax law, as
 added by section 1 of subpart F of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws of
 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  For  taxable years beginning on or after January first, two thou-
 sand twenty-one,  a  resident  individual  whose  primary  residence  is
 located in the central business district established pursuant to article
 forty-four-C  of the vehicle and traffic law and whose New York adjusted
 gross income for the taxable year is less than sixty  thousand  dollars,
 ADJUSTED  FOR  TAXABLE  YEARS  BEGINNING  ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN BY THE PERCENTAGE CHANGE  IN  THE  CONSUMER  PRICE
 INDEX  FOR ALL URBAN CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR THE NEW YORK-NEWARK-JERSEY
 CITY METROPOLITAN AREA SINCE JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-ONE,
 shall be entitled to a credit as calculated pursuant to paragraph two of
 this subsection.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.

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