Assembly Bill A10753

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Exempts protective face masks or shields worn to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from sales and compensating use taxes

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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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2019-A10753 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8715
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A2120, S340
2023-2024: S6423

2019-A10753 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts protective face masks or shields worn to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from sales and compensating use taxes.

2019-A10753 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10753
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 9, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simon) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to  exempting  protective  face
   masks or shields worn to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus
   (COVID-19) from 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. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law  is  amended
 by adding a new paragraph 4-a to read as follows:
   (4-A)  PROTECTIVE FACE MASKS OR SHIELDS THAT ARE WORN TO HELP SLOW THE
 SPREAD OF THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19),  INCLUDING  SURGICAL  MASKS,
 CLOTH,  PAPER  OR  PLASTIC MASKS, DISPOSABLE OR REUSABLE MASKS, AND FACE
 SHIELDS DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE WEARER AGAINST INFECTION  FROM  AIRBORNE
 DROPLETS.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first day of a sales tax quar-
 terly period, as described in subdivision (b) of section 1136 of the tax
 law, next commencing at least thirty days  after  this  act  shall  have
 become  law  and  shall  apply in accordance with the applicable transi-
 tional provisions of sections 1106 and 1217 of  the  tax  law;  provided
 that the commissioner of taxation and finance shall be authorized on and
 after  the date this act shall have become a law to take steps necessary
 to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16877-01-0

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