Assembly Bill A3117

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Establishes a personal income tax credit for taxpayers who donate blood to a blood bank four or more times in a year

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A3117 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1169
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง606, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8218, S6243
2013-2014: A1310, S3090
2015-2016: A1506, S1238
2017-2018: A1424, S3275
2019-2020: A3613, S4503
2021-2022: S4788
2023-2024: S5859

2011-A3117 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a personal income tax credit for taxpayers who donate blood to a blood bank four or more times in a year; specifies such tax credit to be five hundred dollars.

2011-A3117 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  3117

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 24, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, AUBRY, GUNTHER, SPANO, CASTRO, HOOPER
  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, HEVESI, PHEFFER, WEISENBERG --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing a tax  credit  for
  certain taxpayers who donate blood

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 606 of the tax law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
subsection (ss) to read as follows:
  (SS)  BLOOD  DONATION  CREDIT. (1) ALLOWANCE OF CREDIT. A TAXPAYER WHO
DONATES BLOOD FOUR OR MORE TIMES IN A YEAR TO A BLOOD BANK THAT HAS BEEN
ISSUED A VALID PERMIT AS PROVIDED IN SECTION FIVE  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-FIVE
OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH  LAW  SHALL  BE  ALLOWED A CREDIT AS HEREINAFTER
PROVIDED, AGAINST THE TAX IMPOSED BY THIS ARTICLE.  THE  AMOUNT  OF  THE
CREDIT  SHALL  BE  FIVE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS
SUBSECTION, "BLOOD BANK" MEANS A FACILITY FOR THE  COLLECTION,  PROCESS-
ING,  STORAGE  AND/OR  DISTRIBUTION  OF HUMAN BLOOD, BLOOD COMPONENTS OR
BLOOD DERIVATIVES.
  (2) APPLICATION OF CREDIT. IF THE AMOUNT OF THE CREDIT  ALLOWED  UNDER
THIS SUBSECTION FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR SHALL EXCEED THE TAXPAYER'S TAX FOR
SUCH  YEAR,  THE  EXCESS SHALL BE TREATED AS AN OVERPAYMENT OF TAX TO BE
CREDITED OR REFUNDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  SIX
HUNDRED  EIGHTY-SIX OF THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NO INTEREST
SHALL BE PAID THEREON.
  (3) PROOF OF CLAIM. THE COMMISSIONER MAY REQUIRE A QUALIFIED  TAXPAYER
TO  FURNISH PROOF OF HIS OR HER BLOOD DONATIONS IN SUPPORT OF HIS OR HER
CLAIM FOR CREDIT UNDER THIS SUBSECTION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
years beginning on and after January 1, 2013.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00820-01-1

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