Senate Bill S4034

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to credit card processing fees

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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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2021-S4034 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1299-b, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5932
2023-2024: S2490

2021-S4034 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits regulatory agencies to adjust any authorized fares to account for credit card processing fees for meters used in for-hire vehicles and requires credit card processing fees to be separately stated on receipts to passengers of such vehicles.

2021-S4034 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4034 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4034
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  PARKER,  RAMOS, SAVINO -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Investigations and Government Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to credit card processing fees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (b) of section 1299-b of the tax
 law, as added by section 2 of part NNN of chapter  59  of  the  laws  of
 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  The  surcharge  imposed  by  this article must be passed along to
 passengers and separately stated on any receipt that is provided to such
 passengers. The passing along of such surcharge shall not  be  construed
 by  any  court or administrative body as the imposition of the surcharge
 on the person or entity that pays for the for-hire transportation  trip.
 All  regulatory  agencies  must  adjust any fares that are authorized by
 them to include the surcharge imposed by this article AND ARE  PERMITTED
 TO  ADJUST  ANY  AUTHORIZED  FARES TO ACCOUNT FOR CREDIT CARD PROCESSING
 FEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION, and must require that any meter or
 other instrument used in any for-hire vehicle regulated by it to  calcu-
 late fares be adjusted to include the surcharge. FOR MEDALLION VEHICLES,
 CREDIT  CARD  PROCESSING  FEES  SHALL  ALSO  BE SEPARATELY STATED ON ANY
 RECEIPT THAT IS PROVIDED TO SUCH PASSENGERS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08583-01-1

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