Bill Text: NY A10154 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for a deduction from personal gross income for expenses incurred in the adoption of a child in the foster care system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-13 - referred to ways and means [A10154 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A10154-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10154 IN ASSEMBLY May 13, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing for a deduction from personal gross income for expenses incurred in the adoption of a child in the foster care system 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 44 to read as follows: 3 (44) The amount of adoption fees including any and all medical and 4 legal fees, court costs and any other related expenses paid or incurred 5 by a taxpayer during the taxable year in connection with the adoption of 6 a child in the foster care system. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 8 taxable years beginning on or after the first of January in the year in 9 which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05615-02-6