Bill Text: NY S07333 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Grants a personal income tax deduction to taxpayers with a terminal illness who withdraw up to $20,000 from their 401(k) account on a hardship basis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-13 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07333 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07333-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                         7333
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 13, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- 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  establishing  a  personal
         income  tax  deduction for certain withdrawals from a 401(k) plan by a
         taxpayer suffering from a terminal illness
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by
    2  adding a new paragraph 42 to read as follows:
    3    (42) HARDSHIP DISTRIBUTIONS  FROM  A  RETIREMENT  ACCOUNT  ESTABLISHED
    4  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  401(K) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE TO THE EXTENT
    5  INCLUDABLE IN FEDERAL ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE
    6  EXCLUSION PROVIDED FOR IN THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT EXCEED  TWENTY  THOU-
    7  SAND  DOLLARS;  PROVIDED,  FURTHER,  THAT  SUCH  EXCLUSION SHALL ONLY BE
    8  AVAILABLE BY REASON OF  A  MEDICALLY  DETERMINABLE  PHYSICAL  OR  MENTAL
    9  IMPAIRMENT  OF AN INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYER WHICH CAN BE EXPECTED TO RESULT IN
   10  DEATH WITHIN A PERIOD OF NOT MORE THAN TWELVE MONTHS.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the tax
   12  year in which it takes effect and all subsequent tax years.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14948-03-4
feedback