Senate Bill S1395

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes a senior citizen utility circuit breaker personal income tax credit

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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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2019-S1395 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §606, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S4104
2017-2018: S1729

2019-S1395 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a senior citizen utility circuit breaker personal income tax credit.

2019-S1395 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1395 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   1395
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 establishing a senior utili-
   ty circuit breaker personal income tax credit

   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 (jjj) to read as follows:
   (JJJ) SENIOR UTILITY CIRCUIT BREAKER TAX CREDIT. (1) DEFINITIONS.  FOR
 THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBSECTION:
   (A) "QUALIFIED TAXPAYER" MEANS A RESIDENT INDIVIDUAL, MARRIED OR  HEAD
 OF HOUSEHOLD TAXPAYER WHO IS OVER SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE, WITH A HOUSE-
 HOLD GROSS INCOME OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS OR LESS.
   (B)  "HOUSEHOLD"  OR  "MEMBERS  OF  THE  HOUSEHOLD"  MEANS A QUALIFIED
 TAXPAYER AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, NOT NECESSARILY RELATED,  WHO  HAVE  THE
 SAME RESIDENCE AND SHARE ITS FURNISHINGS, FACILITIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS.
 SUCH  TERMS SHALL NOT INCLUDE A TENANT, SUBTENANT, ROOMER OR BOARDER WHO
 IS NOT RELATED TO THE QUALIFIED TAXPAYER  IN  ANY  DEGREE  SPECIFIED  IN
 PARAGRAPHS  ONE  THROUGH  EIGHT OF SUBSECTION (A) OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED
 FIFTY-TWO OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, NO PERSON MAY
 BE A MEMBER OF MORE THAN ONE HOUSEHOLD AT ONE TIME.
   (C) "HOUSEHOLD GROSS INCOME" MEANS THE AGGREGATE ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME
 OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD FOR THE TAXABLE  YEAR  AS  REPORTED  FOR
 FEDERAL  INCOME  TAX  PURPOSES,  OR  WHICH WOULD BE REPORTED AS ADJUSTED
 GROSS INCOME IF A FEDERAL INCOME TAX RETURN WERE REQUIRED TO  BE  FILED,
 WITH  THE  MODIFICATIONS IN SUBSECTION (B) OF SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWELVE
 OF THIS ARTICLE BUT WITHOUT THE MODIFICATIONS IN SUBSECTION (C) OF  SUCH
 SECTION, PLUS ANY PORTION OF THE GAIN FROM THE SALE OR EXCHANGE OF PROP-
 ERTY  OTHERWISE  EXCLUDED  FROM  SUCH AMOUNT; EARNED INCOME FROM SOURCES
 WITHOUT THE UNITED  STATES  EXCLUDABLE  FROM  FEDERAL  GROSS  INCOME  BY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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