Senate Bill S5656

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to continuing to authorize Niagara county to impose an additional rate of sales and compensating use taxes

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • 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-S5656 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7465
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1210 & 1262-n, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S4697, A7098
2019-2020: S7869, A9906

2017-S5656 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to continuing to authorize Niagara county to impose an additional rate of sales and compensating use taxes.

2017-S5656 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5656 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5656
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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  continuing  to  authorize
   Niagara  county to impose an additional rate of sales and compensating
   use taxes

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Clause 29 of subparagraph (i) of the opening paragraph of
 section 1210 of the tax law, as amended by chapter 183 of  the  laws  of
 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (29)  the county of Niagara is hereby further authorized and empowered
 to adopt and amend local laws, ordinances or resolutions  imposing  such
 taxes  at  a  rate  which is one percent additional to the three percent
 rate authorized above in this paragraph for such county for  the  period
 beginning  March  first, two thousand three, and ending November thirti-
 eth, two thousand [seventeen] NINETEEN;
   § 2. Section 1262-n of the tax law, as amended by chapter 183  of  the
 laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   §  1262-n.  Disposition  of  net  collections  from the additional one
 percent rate of sales and  compensating  use  taxes  in  the  county  of
 Niagara.    Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, if the county
 of Niagara imposes the additional one percent rate of sales and  compen-
 sating  use taxes authorized by section twelve hundred ten of this arti-
 cle for all or any portion of the  period  beginning  March  first,  two
 thousand  three  and ending November thirtieth, two thousand [seventeen]
 NINETEEN, the county shall use all net collections from such  additional
 one  percent  rate  to  pay  the county's expenses for Medicaid. The net
 collections from the additional one percent  rate  imposed  pursuant  to
 this  section shall be deposited in a special fund to be created by such
 county separate and apart from any other funds and accounts of the coun-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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