Bill Text: NY S04761 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the New York state sportsmen's weekend act and creates a limited exemption of the sale of certain firearms, ammunition, archery equipment and hunting supplies from state sales and compensating use taxes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-11 - PRINT NUMBER 4761B [S04761 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S04761-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4761--B 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 15, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to enacting the "New York state sportsmen's weekend act" and creating a limited exemption of the sale of certain firearms, ammunition, archery equipment and hunting supplies from state sales and compensating use taxes and granting municipalities the option to grant such limited exemption The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York 2 state sportsmen's weekend act". 3 § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended by 4 adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows: 5 (44) Firearms, ammunition, archery equipment and hunting supplies 6 during the three-day period each year commencing on the third Friday of 7 August, and ending on the following Monday. For purposes of this para- 8 graph firearms shall mean any pistol, revolver, rifle or shotgun used 9 for the predominant use of hunting, as determined by the commissioner of 10 the department of environmental conservation. Ammunition, archery 11 equipment and hunting supplies shall mean any crossbows, long bows and 12 their respective supplies used for the predominant use of hunting, as 13 determined by the commissioner of the department of environmental 14 conservation. This paragraph shall only apply to pistols or revolvers on 15 the condition that the purchasing individual has obtained the license 16 required to purchase such a firearm, pursuant to section 400.00 of the 17 penal law, prior to the three-day period provided in this paragraph. 18 § 3. Subdivision (b) of section 1107 of the tax law is amended by 19 adding a new clause 12 to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10447-04-6
