Bill Text: NY S00214 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Exempts libraries from the imposition of the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00214 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00214-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
         ment Operations
       AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the exemption  of  libraries
         from the imposition of the metropolitan commuter transportation mobil-
         ity tax
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subsection (b) of section  800  of  the  tax
    2  law,  as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2011,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    (4) Any eligible educational  institution.  An  "eligible  educational
    5  institution"  shall  mean any public school district, a board of cooper-
    6  ative educational services, a public elementary or secondary  school,  a
    7  school  approved  pursuant  to article eighty-five or eighty-nine of the
    8  education law to serve students with disabilities of school  age,  or  a
    9  nonpublic  elementary  or  secondary school that provides instruction in
   10  grade one or above, ALL PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEMS AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
   11  ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO OF THE  EDUCATION  LAW,  AND  ALL
   12  PUBLIC  AND  FREE  ASSOCIATION  LIBRARIES  AS  SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN
   13  SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02163-01-5
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