Bill Text: NY A04485 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-17 - held for consideration in ways and means [A04485 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04485-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4485
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 5, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MONTESANO  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         BARCLAY, HAWLEY, OAKS, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee 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    S 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.
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