Bill Text: NY S03429 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the anti-automated sales suppression act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - PRINT NUMBER 3429A [S03429 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03429-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3429--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 9, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO, DILAN, PARKER, PERKINS, STAVISKY
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Consumer Protection -- recommitted to  the  Committee
          on  Consumer  Protection  in  accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the general business law and the tax law, in relation to
          enacting the anti-automated sales suppression act
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "anti-automated sales suppression act".
     3    §  2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 396-
     4  ttt to read as follows:
     5    § 396-ttt. Automated sales suppression.   1. Definitions. As  used  in
     6  this section:
     7    (a)  "Automated  sales  suppression  device"  or "zapper" shall mean a
     8  software program, carried on a memory  stick,  removable  compact  disc,
     9  accessed  through  an internet link or accessed through any other means,
    10  that falsifies the electronic records of point-of-sale systems  for  the
    11  purpose of tax evasion.
    12    (b)  "Certificate of incorporation" shall mean a certificate of incor-
    13  poration as defined in subparagraph three of paragraph  (a)  of  section
    14  one hundred two of the business corporation law.
    15    (c)  "Department"  shall  mean  the  state  department of taxation and
    16  finance.
    17    (d) "Electronic cash register" shall mean a device that keeps a regis-
    18  ter or supporting documents through the means of an electronic device or
    19  computer system designed to record transaction data for the  purpose  of
    20  computing,  compiling  or  processing  retail  sales transaction data in
    21  whatever manner.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03359-02-6