Assembly Bill A6940

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Exempts institutions of higher education from the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility 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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2019-A6940 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S463
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §800, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3621
2015-2016: S4617
2017-2018: A7235, S4062
2021-2022: S4508
2023-2024: S3084

2019-A6940 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts institutions of higher education from the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax.

2019-A6940 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6940
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Ways and Means
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law, in relation to exempting institutions of
   higher education from the definition of "employer" for purposes of the
   metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  4  of subsection (b) of section 800 of the tax
 law, as amended by section 1 of part YY of chapter 59  of  the  laws  of
 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (4)  [Any]  ANY  eligible educational institution. An "eligible educa-
 tional institution" shall mean any public school district,  a  board  of
 cooperative  educational  services,  a  public  elementary  or secondary
 school, a school approved pursuant to article eighty-five or eighty-nine
 of the education law to serve students with disabilities of school  age,
 or  a nonpublic elementary or secondary school that provides instruction
 in grade one or above, all public library systems as defined in subdivi-
 sion one of section two hundred seventy-two of the education law,  [and]
 all  public  and free association libraries as such terms are defined in
 subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-three of the education law,
 OR ANY INSTITUTION PROVIDING HIGHER EDUCATION OR  CAREER  EDUCATION,  AS
 SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03510-01-9

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