Senate Bill S4508

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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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-S4508 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §800, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3621
2015-2016: S4617
2017-2018: S4062
2019-2020: S463
2023-2024: S3084

2021-S4508 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-S4508 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4508 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4508
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  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, 2021.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06115-01-1

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