Bill Text: NY A00352 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of the foreign and alien fire insurance premium tax; amount received shall be distributed to the fire companies in proportion to the number of active members within each company.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-13 - print number 352a [A00352 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           352
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Insurance
        AN  ACT  to  amend the insurance law, in relation to the distribution of
          the foreign and alien fire insurance premium 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 (a) of section 9104 of the insur-
     2  ance  law,  as amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 1988, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (4) if such payment is made to the treasurer or other  fiscal  officer
     5  of  a  fire department or fiscal officer of authorities having jurisdic-
     6  tion and control of such fire department, such treasurer or fiscal offi-
     7  cer shall on or before the fifteenth day of March in each year  distrib-
     8  ute  the  amount so received to the fire companies constituting the fire
     9  department if such fire department is constituted of more than one  fire
    10  company.  Beginning  on the effective date of the chapter of the laws of
    11  two thousand nineteen  which  amended  this  paragraph,  the  amount  so
    12  received shall be distributed to the fire companies in proportion to the
    13  number  of  active members within each company. For the purposes of this
    14  paragraph, the term "active member" shall mean a member who participates
    15  in firefighting and is subject  to  call  for  whatever  duties  may  be
    16  assigned  to  him  or  her  under  the rules and regulations of the fire
    17  department or company of which he or she is a member.
    18    § 2. Subparagraph (E) of paragraph 2 of subsection (d) of section 9105
    19  of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 1988,  is
    20  amended to read as follows:
    21    (E) if such payment is received by the treasurer or other fiscal offi-
    22  cer  of a fire department or fiscal officer of authorities having juris-
    23  diction and control of such fire department, such  treasurer  or  fiscal
    24  officer  shall  on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day of July in each year
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  distribute the amount so received to the fire companies constituting the
     2  fire department if such fire department is constituted of more than  one
     3  fire company. Beginning on the effective date of the chapter of the laws
     4  of  two thousand nineteen which amended this subparagraph, the amount so
     5  received shall be distributed to the fire companies in proportion to the
     6  number of active members within each company. For the purposes  of  this
     7  subparagraph,  the  term "active member" shall mean a member who partic-
     8  ipates in firefighting and is subject to call for whatever duties may be
     9  assigned to him or her under the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  fire
    10  department or company of which he or she is a member.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.