Bill Text: NY A06021 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Increases the amount in the tax stabilization reserve fund to 5% of state fiscal year disbursements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-17 - held for consideration in ways and means [A06021 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06021-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6021
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 13, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Ways and Means
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the state finance law, in relation to increasing the
         amount of money that  may  be  maintained  in  the  tax  stabilization
         reserve fund
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 92  of  the  state  finance
    2  law,  as separately amended by chapters 405 and 957 of the laws of 1981,
    3  are amended to read as follows:
    4    3. At the close of each fiscal year any cash surplus remaining in  the
    5  general  fund  over  and  above  the  norm for such fiscal year shall be
    6  transferred from or retained in such fund as hereinafter in this  subdi-
    7  vision  provided.  There  shall  be transferred to the tax stabilization
    8  reserve fund all of such surplus moneys, up to and including  an  amount
    9  equivalent  to  two-tenths  of  one per centum of such norm, unless such
   10  transfer would increase such reserve fund to  an  amount  in  excess  of
   11  [two] FIVE per centum of the amount of the norm for such fiscal year, in
   12  which  event  such  transfer  shall  be  limited  to such amount as will
   13  increase such reserve fund to such [two] FIVE per centum limitation. Any
   14  balance of such surplus moneys,  thereafter  remaining  in  the  general
   15  fund,  shall be retained in such fund and be available for the reduction
   16  of state taxes.
   17    4. In the event that at the close of  any  fiscal  year  the  receipts
   18  derived  from  the  taxes,  fees  and other sources, required to be paid
   19  during such fiscal year into the general fund of the  state  shall  fall
   20  below the norm for such fiscal year, there shall be transferred from the
   21  tax  stabilization  reserve  fund to the general fund to the extent that
   22  there are sufficient moneys in the tax stabilization  reserve  fund,  an
   23  amount  equal  to the difference between the norm and the amount of such
   24  receipts. If such transfer reduces the tax stabilization reserve fund to
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07821-01-3
       A. 6021                             2
    1  an amount less than two per centum of the norm for such fiscal year, the
    2  amount so transferred shall be repaid in cash prior to  the  computation
    3  and payment of any transfer to the fund pursuant to subdivision three of
    4  this section in not less than three equal annual installments within the
    5  period  of  six years or less next succeeding the date of such transfer;
    6  provided, however, that if any such annual  installment  shall  increase
    7  such reserve fund to an amount in excess of [two] FIVE per centum of the
    8  amount  of  the  norm for the then current fiscal year, such installment
    9  shall be limited to such amount as will increase such  reserve  fund  to
   10  such  [two]  FIVE  per centum limitation and no further repayment of the
   11  whole or any part of such transfer shall be required in  any  subsequent
   12  fiscal  year.  Repayments to the tax stabilization reserve fund shall be
   13  stipulated in annual budget bills.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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