Bill Text: NY S00666 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a tax free time period for storm related products for the month of September.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00666 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00666-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           666
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 establishing a tax free time
          period for storm related products for the month of September
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1115  of  the tax law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision (ll) to read as follows:
     3    (ll) (1) Receipts from the retail sale of storm related products shall
     4  be exempt from taxes imposed by this article for the month of September.
     5    (2) Storm related products shall include snowblowers,  electric  shov-
     6  els,  shovels,  roof  rakes, ice choppers, rock salt or calcium chloride
     7  pellets, generators, extension cords, power  strips,  portable  electric
     8  heaters,  portable  battery  or  self  operated  radios, battery or self
     9  powered flashlights, battery or self  powered  lanterns,  portable  self
    10  powered light sources such as chemlights and light sticks, fuel contain-
    11  ers,  batteries,  power  inverters, battery or self powered weather band
    12  radios, cell phone chargers, carbon monoxide detectors, smoke detectors,
    13  auxiliary sump pumps and fire extinguishers.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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