Bill Text: NY A02203 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of taxation and finance, by rules and regulations, to establish a procedure whereby persons owing payment to a state agency may offset against such payment the amount of any debt owed by a state agency.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-14 - held for consideration in ways and means [A02203 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02203-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2203 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MONTESANO, GOODELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, HAWLEY, OAKS, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to authorizing the offset of debts to the state against obligations of the state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 171 of the tax law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision twenty-ninth to read as follows: 3 Twenty-ninth. Establish by rules and regulations a procedure whereby 4 any person obligated to make payment to any state agency, as defined in 5 section one hundred seventy-one-f of this article, may set off against 6 such payment the amount of any debt owed by a state agency, as herein 7 defined, to such person. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 9 it shall have become a law; provided that the commissioner of taxation 10 and finance is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regu- 11 lations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act on 12 its effective date on or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06089-01-7