Senate Bill S1145

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the contribution that resident taxpayers may make to family tuition accounts

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Budget And Revenue 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-S1145 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Budget And Revenue
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §612, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S602
2013-2014: S60
2015-2016: S2235
2017-2018: S317
2019-2020: S2075
2021-2022: S1011, S8143
2023-2024: S269

2025-S1145 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the contribution that a resident taxpayer may make to family tuition accounts during a taxable year.

2025-S1145 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1145 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1145
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  GOUNARDES,  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK,  WEBER -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
   Committee on Budget and Revenue
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law, in relation to increasing the authorized
   resident taxpayer contribution to family tuition accounts

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  32 of subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax
 law, as amended by chapter 81 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (32) Contributions made during the taxable year by an account owner to
 one or more family tuition accounts established under the New York state
 college choice tuition savings program provided for under article  four-
 teen-A  of  the  education law, to the extent not deductible or eligible
 for credit for federal  income  tax  purposes,  provided,  however,  the
 exclusion  provided  for  in  this paragraph shall not exceed [five] TEN
 thousand dollars for an individual or head of household, and for married
 couples who file joint tax returns, shall not exceed [ten] TWENTY  thou-
 sand  dollars; provided, further, that such exclusion shall be available
 only to the account owner and not to any other person.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02226-01-5



              

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