Bill Text: NY S05932 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits regulatory agencies to adjust any authorized fares to account for credit card processing fees for meters used in for-hire vehicles and requires credit card processing fees to be separately stated on receipts to passengers of such vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-20 - VETOED MEMO.281 [S05932 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05932-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5932--A
            Cal. No. 1262

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  PARKER,  RAMOS, SAVINO -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Investigations  and  Government Operations -- committee discharged and
          said bill committed to the Committee on Rules  --  reported  favorably
          from  said committee, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and
          delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,  restored  to
          third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
          the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to credit card processing fees

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of section 1299-b of the tax
     2  law,  as  added  by  section  2 of part NNN of chapter 59 of the laws of
     3  2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1) The surcharge imposed by this article  must  be  passed  along  to
     5  passengers and separately stated on any receipt that is provided to such
     6  passengers.  The  passing along of such surcharge shall not be construed
     7  by any court or administrative body as the imposition of  the  surcharge
     8  on  the person or entity that pays for the for-hire transportation trip.
     9  All regulatory agencies must adjust any fares  that  are  authorized  by
    10  them  to include the surcharge imposed by this article and are permitted
    11  to adjust any authorized fares to account  for  credit  card  processing
    12  fees in accordance with this section, and must require that any meter or
    13  other  instrument used in any for-hire vehicle regulated by it to calcu-
    14  late fares be adjusted to include the surcharge. For medallion vehicles,
    15  credit card processing fees shall  also  be  separately  stated  on  any
    16  receipt that is provided to such passengers.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11794-02-9