Assembly Bill A853

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to exempting from sales and use tax school buses

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2021-A853 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1290
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1115, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A6474, S3967
2023-2024: A1517

2021-A853 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts school buses and parts, equipment, lubricants and fuel purchased and used in their operation from sales and use tax; establishes a green ribbon panel to research and report on greener school buses.

2021-A853 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    853
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, WOERNER, THIELE, MIKULIN, EPSTEIN,
   MORINELLO, ENGLEBRIGHT, ABBATE, DICKENS, SAYEGH, COOK, GUNTHER,  CRUZ,
   WILLIAMS,  DARLING, HYNDMAN, GRIFFIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- 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 from sales and use
   tax school buses; establishes a green ribbon panel to research greener
   school buses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1115  of  the tax law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision (ll) to read as follows:
   (LL) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,
 RECEIPTS  FROM  THE  SALE  OF  SCHOOL  BUSES, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN
 SECTION ONE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND  PARTS,
 EQUIPMENT,  LUBRICANTS  AND  FUEL PURCHASED AND USED IN THEIR OPERATION,
 SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM TAXES IMPOSED BY THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. (a) The commissioner  of  education,  in  consultation  with  the
 commissioner  of  motor  vehicles and the New York state energy research
 and development authority, shall establish a "Green Ribbon Panel"  which
 shall research and develop recommendations for upgrading school buses to
 be greener and cleaner.
   (b)  The  Green Ribbon Panel shall be composed of 12 members appointed
 by the commissioner of education provided that of such 12 members: three
 members shall be appointed upon  the  recommendation  of  the  governor,
 three  members  shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the tempo-
 rary president of the senate, three members shall be appointed upon  the
 recommendation of the speaker of the assembly, and the remaining members
 shall  be appointed in the sole discretion of the commissioner of educa-
 tion. The members of the Green  Ribbon  Panel  shall  include  represen-
 tatives  from  each  of  the  following groups: the school bus industry,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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