Bill Text: NY A06260 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of fire insurance premium taxes; provides that a percentage of fire insurance premium taxes be paid to the treasurer of the NYS Professional Firefighters Association to promote, support and maintain the well-being of paid professional firefighters employed in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-21 - print number 6260a [A06260 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06260-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6260--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Insurance  -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to  the  distribution  of
          fire insurance premium taxes
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subsection (d) of section 9105 of the insur-
     2  ance law, as amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 1988, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (1) The amount of all monies which were received by the superintendent
     5  on or before the first day of April in each year under the provisions of
     6  this  section  or section nine thousand one hundred four of this article
     7  shall be distributed by him or her not later than the first day of  July
     8  in such year, after adding any earnings resulting from the investment of
     9  such  monies  and deducting the expenses of collection and distribution.
    10  [Ten] Nine percent of such remaining monies received under this  section
    11  shall be paid to the treasurer of the Firemen's Association of the State
    12  of  New  York  for  the support and maintenance of the firemen's home at
    13  Hudson, New York, and one percent  of  such  remaining  monies  received
    14  under  this section shall be paid to the treasurer of the New York State
    15  Professional Firefighters Association to promote, support  and  maintain
    16  the  well-being  of paid professional firefighters employed in the state
    17  of New York, and the balance shall be paid as specified in paragraph two
    18  [hereof] of this subsection, in amounts which will be that proportion of
    19  the balance so to be distributed which the total amount of  fire  insur-
    20  ance  business  written  by  foreign  mutual fire insurance companies on
    21  property situated in such locality bears to the  total  amount  of  fire
    22  insurance business written by foreign mutual fire insurance companies on
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  property  situated  in  any  and  all of the protected localities in the
     2  state having treasurers or other fiscal officers as designated in  para-
     3  graph two [hereof] of this subsection afforded fire protection by a fire
     4  department  or  fire  company  and  upon  which the tax provided in this
     5  section has been paid.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
     7  monies  received by the superintendent of financial services pursuant to
     8  section 9105 of the insurance law commencing with those monies  received
     9  on or after April 1, 2019.
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