Assembly Bill A3137

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts poll workers from the obligation to pay New York state income tax on income earned on an election day

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Current 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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2025-A3137 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §601, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A3484
2021-2022: A3607
2023-2024: A898

2025-A3137 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts poll workers from the obligation to pay New York state income tax on income earned on an election day.

2025-A3137 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3137
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL,  STECK,  BURDICK -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting poll workers  from
   the obligation to pay New York state income tax on income earned on an
   election day

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 601 of the tax law is  relettered
 subsection (j) and a new subsection (i) is added to read as follows:
   (I)   POLL  WORKERS  WORKING  ON  ELECTION  DAY.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE
 PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTIONS (A), (B), (C) AND (D) OF THIS SECTION AND  ANY
 OTHER  PROVISION  OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  FOR  TAXABLE YEARS BEGINNING AFTER
 DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX, THE INCOME OF A RESIDENT
 INDIVIDUAL EARNED WHILE WORKING AS A POLL  WORKER  ON  AN  ELECTION  DAY
 SHALL  BE  EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER THIS ARTICLE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH
 INCOME IS SUBJECT TO FEDERAL  INCOME  TAXATION.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS
 SUBSECTION:  (1)  "POLL  WORKER"  SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,
 ELECTION INSPECTORS, POLL CLERKS  AND  ELECTION  COORDINATORS;  AND  (2)
 "ELECTION  DAY"  SHALL  MEAN  THE  DATE  OF  A  STATE, LOCAL, OR FEDERAL
 ELECTION, INCLUDING PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05614-01-5

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