Bill Text: NY A03356 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Excludes from personal income taxation moneys paid by a taxpayer over the age of sixty-five for prescription drugs whose New York adjusted gross income is below or equal to $60,000.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 25-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-14 - held for consideration in ways and means [A03356 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03356-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3356 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAIA, OAKS, MALLIOTAKIS, MONTESANO, RA, GRAF, CURRAN, LALOR, FINCH, MURRAY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, DiPIETRO, FITZPATRICK, GIGLIO, GOODELL, HAWLEY, KOLB, LUPINACCI, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, PALMESANO, SALADINO, STEC, THIELE, WALTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to excluding from personal income taxation moneys paid by certain persons for prescription drugs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by 2 adding a new paragraph 42 to read as follows: 3 (42) The amount, up to one thousand dollars, paid for any medication 4 prescribed by a doctor, nurse or other certified health professional for 5 the treatment of any illness or physical ailment of the taxpayer, 6 provided the taxpayer is over sixty-five years old and the taxpayer's 7 New York adjusted gross income is below or equal to sixty thousand 8 dollars. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable 10 years beginning on or after January 1, 2015. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06901-01-7
