Bill Text: NY A03208 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a portion of the local hotel occupancy tax in a city having a population of one million or more shall be dedicated to promoting tourism within each individual borough of such city.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - enacting clause stricken [A03208 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03208-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3208
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. SEPULVEDA, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the disposition of a portion
          of  sales taxes collected for hotel occupancy in cities having a popu-
          lation of one million or more
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1261  of  the tax law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision (h) to read as follows:
     3    (h) Notwithstanding any provision of state or local law, ordinance  or
     4  resolution  to  the  contrary,  from  the  moneys  collected pursuant to
     5  section twelve hundred ten of this article for the rent of  every  occu-
     6  pancy  of  a  room  or rooms, as described in subdivision (e) of section
     7  eleven hundred five of this chapter, in a city having  a  population  of
     8  one  million  or  more,  four  percent of such moneys or the first three
     9  hundred thousand dollars of such moneys collected during  each  calendar
    10  year,  whichever  shall  be  less, in each borough of such city shall be
    11  deposited into a separate account by the commissioner with the moneys in
    12  each such account being expended solely for  the  purpose  of  promoting
    13  tourism in the borough to which each account relates. The moneys in each
    14  account  shall  be made available for tourism promotion purposes, exclu-
    15  sive of administrative expenses, to an entity designated by the  borough
    16  president  and  approved  by  the  department of economic development as
    17  responsible for tourism promotion in the borough.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00122-01-7