Bill Text: NY A04853 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4853 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Excludes from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker, thereby exempting such payments from state income tax in like manner as a pension.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to ways and means [A04853 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4853
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 9, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN, DUPREY, FINCH, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by
         --  M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways
         and Means
       AN ACT to amend the tax law,  in  relation  to  excluding  from  federal
         adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volun-
         teer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker
         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 OF ANY SERVICE AWARD PAID TO ANY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER
    4  PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ELEVEN-A OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW AND THE AMOUNT
    5  OF  ANY SERVICE AWARD PAID TO ANY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKER PURSUANT TO
    6  ARTICLE ELEVEN-AA OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
    8  have been in full force and effect on and after January 1, 2016.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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