Bill Text: NY A00218 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts libraries from the imposition of the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to ways and means [A00218 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00218-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, CAHILL, ENGLEBRIGHT, RA, RAMOS, ZEBROW-
         SKI,  MONTESANO,  JAFFEE, BUCHWALD, THIELE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of A. CURRAN, GALEF, RAIA, SOLAGES -- read once and  referred  to  the
         Committee on Ways and Means
       AN  ACT  to amend the tax law, in relation to the exemption of libraries
         from the imposition of the metropolitan commuter transportation mobil-
         ity tax
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  4  of subsection (b) of section 800 of the tax
    2  law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of  2011,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    (4)  Any  eligible  educational  institution. An "eligible educational
    5  institution" shall mean any public school district, a board  of  cooper-
    6  ative  educational  services, a public elementary or secondary school, a
    7  school approved pursuant to article eighty-five or  eighty-nine  of  the
    8  education  law  to  serve students with disabilities of school age, or a
    9  nonpublic elementary or secondary school that  provides  instruction  in
   10  grade one or above, ALL PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEMS AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
   11  ONE  OF  SECTION  TWO  HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW, AND ALL
   12  PUBLIC AND FREE ASSOCIATION LIBRARIES  AS  SUCH  TERMS  ARE  DEFINED  IN
   13  SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02163-01-5