Bill Text: NY S02711 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates a tax credit for energy efficiency home improvements and products affixed to homes; directs NYSERDA to develop a list of qualified products and improvements and provides that such improvements shall not affect the assessed valuation of real property for tax purposes.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S02711 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02711-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2711--B
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 31, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sens. GRISANTI, DeFRANCISCO, HANNON, JOHNSON, MAZIARZ --
         read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
         the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations -- committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the tax law and the real property tax law,  in  relation
         to  providing  a  tax credit for the purchase of energy efficient home
         improvements
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.    Section  606  of the tax law is amended by adding a new
    2  subsection (tt) to read as follows:
    3    (TT) CREDIT FOR THE PURCHASE OF ENERGY  EFFICIENT  HOME  IMPROVEMENTS.
    4  (1)  ALLOWANCE AND AMOUNT OF CREDIT. A TAXPAYER SHALL BE ALLOWED A CRED-
    5  IT, TO BE COMPUTED AS PROVIDED  IN  THIS  SUBSECTION,  AGAINST  THE  TAX
    6  IMPOSED  BY  THIS  ARTICLE.  THE  AMOUNT OF THE CREDIT SHALL BE EQUAL TO
    7  TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE COST OF ENERGY EFFICIENT  HOME  IMPROVEMENTS,
    8  AS  PROVIDED  IN  PARAGRAPH TWO OF THIS SUBSECTION, UP TO A TWO THOUSAND
    9  FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR LIMIT FOR ALL HOME IMPROVEMENTS MADE BY SUCH TAXPAY-
   10  ER TO THE TAXPAYER'S PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE, IF SUCH RESIDENCE  IS  LOCATED
   11  WITHIN THIS STATE.
   12    (2) THE NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY SHALL
   13  ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS SETTING FORTH HOME IMPROVEMENTS WHICH QUALI-
   14  FY  FOR THE CREDIT UNDER THIS SUBSECTION. SUCH AUTHORITY SHALL DEVELOP A
   15  LIST OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS AND PRODUCTS AND MAKE SUCH LIST  AVAILABLE  ON
   16  ITS WEBSITE.
   17    (3)  APPLICATION OF CREDIT. IF THE AMOUNT OF CREDIT ALLOWED UNDER THIS
   18  SUBSECTION FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR SHALL EXCEED THE TAXPAYER'S TAX FOR SUCH
   19  YEAR, THE EXCESS SHALL BE TREATED AS AN OVERPAYMENT OF TAX TO BE CREDIT-
   20  ED OR REFUNDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION SIX  HUNDRED
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07933-04-1
       S. 2711--B                          2
    1  EIGHTY-SIX OF THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NO INTEREST SHALL BE
    2  PAID THEREON.
    3    S  2.  The  real  property  tax law is amended by adding a new section
    4  582-b to read as follows:
    5    S 582-B. ENERGY EFFICIENT HOME IMPROVEMENTS. ENERGY EFFICIENT PRODUCTS
    6  AND HOME IMPROVEMENTS WHICH QUALIFIED FOR A TAX CREDIT UNDER  SUBSECTION
    7  (TT)  OF  SECTION  SIX HUNDRED SIX OF THE TAX LAW SHALL NOT INCREASE THE
    8  ASSESSED VALUATION FOR PURPOSES OF REAL PROPERTY TAXATION  OF  ANY  REAL
    9  PROPERTY TO WHICH SUCH IMPROVEMENTS ARE MADE OR PRODUCTS ARE AFFIXED.
   10    S  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   11  ing the date on which it shall have become a  law  and  shall  apply  to
   12  taxable years commencing on and after such date.