Assembly Bill A6897

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Exempts the amount of any service award paid to any volunteer firefighter or ambulance worker from personal income tax

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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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2017-A6897 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1815
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S5420
2011-2012: S4727
2013-2014: S540
2015-2016: S646
2019-2020: A4473, S640
2021-2022: S5111

2017-A6897 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts the amount of any service award paid to any volunteer firefighter or ambulance worker from personal income tax.

2017-A6897 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6897
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting the proceeds  from
   service  award programs for volunteer firefighters and ambulance work-
   ers from personal income taxes

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 3-d to read as follows:
   (3-D) THE AMOUNT OF ANY SERVICE AWARD PAID TO ANY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHT-
 ER AND THE AMOUNT OF ANY SERVICE AWARD PAID TO ANY  VOLUNTEER  AMBULANCE
 WORKER FROM THE LENGTH OF SERVICE DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLANS AND DEFINED
 BENEFIT  PLANS  APPLICABLE  TO SUCH WORKERS, AS PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLES
 ELEVEN-A, ELEVEN-AA, ELEVEN-AAA, AND ELEVEN-AAAA OF THE GENERAL  MUNICI-
 PAL LAW; PROVIDED, HOWEVER THAT THE EXCLUSION PROVIDED IN THIS PARAGRAPH
 SHALL  NOT APPLY TO A SERVICE AWARD THAT IS DISTRIBUTED IN THE FORM OF A
 LUMP SUM OR THAT IS DISTRIBUTED TO A TAXPAYER THAT HAS NOT ATTAINED  THE
 AGE OF FIFTY-NINE AND ONE-HALF.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
 years beginning on and after January 1, 2019.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00630-01-7

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