Bill Text: NY A05466 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a credit for purchase and installation of a seat belt violation alert system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A05466 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05466-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5466 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a credit for the installation of a seat belt violation alert system The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 210-B of the tax law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 49 to read as follows: 3 49. Credit for installation of seat belt violation alert system. (a) A 4 taxpayer shall be allowed a credit, to be computed as hereinafter 5 provided, against the tax imposed by this article, for the purchase, 6 other than for resale, and installation of a seat belt violation alert 7 system. 8 (b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the following terms shall 9 have the following meanings: 10 (1) "electronic indicator" shall mean any display system on the 11 outside of a motor vehicle that registers the failure of a passenger to 12 properly secure their safety belt within such vehicle. 13 (2) "seat belt violation alert system" shall mean any device, which, 14 upon installation in and on a motor vehicle, signals or otherwise alerts 15 police officers, by way of an electronic indicator on the outside of the 16 vehicle, that an individual in such vehicle has failed to properly 17 secure their safety belt. 18 (c) The amount of credit shall be fifty percent of the cost to the 19 taxpayer for the purchase and installation of such security system 20 during the taxable year of purchase, such credit not to exceed two 21 hundred fifty dollars with respect to each purchase and installation. 22 The credit allowed under this subdivision for any taxable year shall not 23 reduce the tax due for such year to less than the higher of the amounts 24 prescribed in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision one of section two 25 hundred ten of this article. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09461-01-7A. 5466 2 1 § 2. Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection 2 (s-1) to read as follows: 3 (s-1) Credit for installation of seat belt violation alert system. A 4 taxpayer shall be allowed a credit as hereinafter provided, against the 5 tax imposed by this article for the purchase and installation of a seat 6 belt violation alert system, as such term is defined in subdivision 7 forty-nine of section two hundred ten-B of this chapter. The amount of 8 credit shall be fifty percent of the cost to the taxpayer of the 9 purchase and installation of the security system during the taxable 10 year, such credit not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars with respect 11 to each system purchased and installed. 12 § 3. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (i) of section 606 13 of the tax law is amended by adding a new clause (xliii) to read as 14 follows: 15 (xliii) Credit for installation Amount of credit under 16 of seat belt violation alert subdivision forty-nine of section 17 system under subsection (s-1) two hundred ten-B 18 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 19 ing the date on which it shall become a law.