Bill Text: NY A00726 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to violations of secrecy provisions of the tax law; increases penalties for disclosure of personal income information from a misdemeanor to a class E felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A00726 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00726-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           726
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GLICK, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend the tax  law,  in  relation  to  violations  of  secrecy
          provisions of the tax law
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1825 of the tax law, as amended  by  section  3  of
     2  part  NNN  of  chapter  59  of  the  laws of 2018, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    § 1825. Violation of secrecy  provisions  of  the  tax  law.--(a)  Any
     5  person  who  violates the provisions of subdivision (b) of section twen-
     6  ty-one, subdivision one of section two hundred two, subdivision eight of
     7  section two hundred eleven, subdivision (a)  of  section  three  hundred
     8  fourteen,  subdivision  one or two of section four hundred thirty-seven,
     9  section four hundred eighty-seven, subdivision one  or  two  of  section
    10  five  hundred  fourteen,  [subsection (e) of section six hundred ninety-
    11  seven,] subsection (a) of section nine hundred ninety-four,  subdivision
    12  (a)  of section eleven hundred forty-six, section twelve hundred eighty-
    13  seven, section twelve hundred ninety-six, section twelve  hundred  nine-
    14  ty-nine-F,  subdivision (a) of section fourteen hundred eighteen, subdi-
    15  vision (a) of section  fifteen  hundred  eighteen,  subdivision  (a)  of
    16  section  fifteen hundred fifty-five of this chapter, and subdivision (e)
    17  of section 11-1797 of the administrative code of the city  of  New  York
    18  shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
    19    (b)  Any  person  who  violates  the  provisions  of subsection (e) of
    20  section six hundred ninety-seven of this chapter shall be  guilty  of  a
    21  class E felony.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05671-01-9
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