Bill Text: NY A00655 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Establishes a mollusk shell recycling tax credit and directs DEC to promulgate necessary regulations.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A00655 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00655-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Establishes a mollusk shell recycling tax credit and directs DEC to promulgate necessary regulations.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A00655 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00655-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 655 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, ZEBROWSKI, FAHY, RIVERA, SIMON, GLICK, D'URSO, ENGLEBRIGHT, THIELE, WEPRIN, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. NIOU, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law and the environmental conservation law, in relation to establishing an oyster shell recycling tax credit The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 210-B of the tax law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 53 to read as follows: 3 53. Oyster shell recycling credit. A taxpayer shall be allowed a cred- 4 it, to be computed as hereinafter provided against the tax imposed by 5 this article, for the recycling of oyster shells. The amount of the 6 credit shall be the lesser of one thousand dollars, or ten cents multi- 7 plied by the number of pounds of oyster shells certified by the New York 8 state department of environmental conservation. The credit allowed under 9 this subdivision for any taxable year shall not reduce the tax due for 10 such year to less than the fixed dollar minimum amount prescribed in 11 paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section two hundred ten of this 12 article. 13 § 2. Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection 14 (jjj) to read as follows: 15 (jjj) Oyster shell recycling credit. (1) A taxpayer shall be allowed a 16 credit, to be computed as hereinafter provided against the tax imposed 17 by this article, for the recycling of oyster shells. 18 (2) The amount of the credit shall be the lesser of one thousand 19 dollars, or ten cents multiplied by the number of pounds of oyster 20 shells certified by the New York state department of environmental 21 conservation. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00526-01-9A. 655 2 1 § 3. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (i) of section 606 2 of the tax law is amended by adding a new clause (xliv) to read as 3 follows: 4 (xliv) Oyster shell recycling Amount of credit under subdivision 5 credit under subsection (jjj) 53 of section two hundred ten-B 6 § 4. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0301 of the environmental conservation 7 law is amended by adding a new paragraph ee to read as follows: 8 ee. The department shall establish rules and regulations regarding the 9 verification, certification, and use of oyster shells returned to the 10 department for recycling for the purposes of the oyster shell recycling 11 tax credit provided in sections two hundred ten-B and six hundred six of 12 the tax law. 13 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable 14 years beginning on or after January 1, 2020.