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Senate Bill S9981

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts certain pet food from sales taxes

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2025-S9981 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10815
Current Committee:
Senate Budget And Revenue
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L

2025-S9981 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts certain pet food from sales taxes to include specialty pet food.

2025-S9981 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9981 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9981
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 20, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation  to  exempting  pet  food  from
   sales taxes
 
   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 two new paragraphs 47 and 48 to read as follows:
   (47)  PET  FOOD TO INCLUDE KIBBLE, DRY FOOD, WET FOOD, TOPPERS, FRESH,
 FROZEN AND FREEZE-DRIED FOOD. FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,
 "PET" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
 EIGHT OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
 LAW.
   (48)  SPECIALTY  PET  FOOD  WHICH  SHALL  INCLUDE  ANY COMMERCIAL FEED
 PREPARED AND DISTRIBUTED FOR CONSUMPTION  BY  SPECIALTY  PETS.  FOR  THE
 PURPOSES  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "SPECIALTY PET" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEAN-
 ING AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
 TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14896-01-6

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