Bill Text: NY A02454 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to the imposition of an excise tax on the sale of alcoholic beverages to fund chemical dependence services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-11 - enacting clause stricken [A02454 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02454-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2454
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 16, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, GREENE, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of  A.  BOYLAND,  CLARK,  MAYERSOHN  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Ways and Means
       AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law,  in  relation  to
         the  imposition of an excise tax on the sale of alcoholic beverages to
         fund chemical dependence services
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  424  of  the  tax law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    3    7. IN ADDITION TO THE EXCISE TAXES LEVIED AND IMPOSED PURSUANT TO THIS
    4  SECTION, THERE IS HEREBY LEVIED AND  IMPOSED  ON  A  DISTRIBUTOR  AND  A
    5  NONCOMMERCIAL  IMPORTER AN EXCISE TAX IN THE AMOUNT OF TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
    6  PER BOTTLE FOR EACH BOTTLE OF BEER, STILL WINE, ARTIFICIALLY  CARBONATED
    7  SPARKLING WINE, NATURAL SPARKLING WINE AND LIQUOR SOLD IN THIS STATE.
    8    S  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section  97-w  of the state finance law, as
    9  amended by chapter 398 of the laws  of  2004,  is  amended  to  read  as
   10  follows:
   11    2.  Such  fund  shall consist of ALL MONEYS RECEIVED FROM EXCISE TAXES
   12  LEVIED AND IMPOSED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED
   13  TWENTY-FOUR OF THE TAX LAW, all moneys appropriated for the  purpose  of
   14  such fund, all moneys transferred to such fund pursuant to law, contrib-
   15  utions  consisting of promises or grants of any money or property of any
   16  kind or value, or any other thing of value, including  grants  or  other
   17  financial  assistance  from  any  agency  of  government  and all moneys
   18  required by the provisions of this section or any other law to  be  paid
   19  into or credited to this fund.
   20    S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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