Bill Text: NY S07182 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides tax credit to certain volunteer firefighters, volunteer ambulance workers and volunteer emergency medical personnel of up to one thousand one hundred dollars for qualifying service; defines "qualifying service".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-06 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07182 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07182-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7182
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 6, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- 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  providing  tax  credits  to
          volunteer  firefighters,  volunteer  ambulance  workers  and volunteer
          emergency medical personnel under certain circumstances
          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 (h-1) to read as follows:
     3    (h-1) Volunteer firefighters', volunteer ambulance workers' and volun-
     4  teer emergency medical service personnel  credit.    For  taxable  years
     5  beginning on and after January first, two thousand sixteen, a credit, in
     6  the amounts of:
     7    (1) two hundred dollars for one year of qualifying service;
     8    (2)  three  hundred  dollars  for  two years of consecutive qualifying
     9  service;
    10    (3) four hundred dollars for three  years  of  consecutive  qualifying
    11  service;
    12    (4)  five  hundred  dollars  for  four years of consecutive qualifying
    13  service;
    14    (5) six hundred dollars  for  five  years  of  consecutive  qualifying
    15  service;
    16    (6)  seven  hundred  dollars  for  six years of consecutive qualifying
    17  service;
    18    (7) eight hundred dollars for seven years  of  consecutive  qualifying
    19  service;
    20    (8)  nine  hundred  dollars  for eight years of consecutive qualifying
    21  service;
    22    (9) one thousand dollars for  nine  years  of  consecutive  qualifying
    23  service; or
    24    (10) one thousand one hundred dollars for ten or more years of consec-
    25  utive qualifying service;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00652-01-5