STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1011 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a personal tax deduction for members of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by 2 adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows: 3 (44) Three thousand dollars for any taxpayer who, during the taxable 4 year, was an enrolled and active member of the United States Coast Guard 5 Auxiliary and has been so enrolled and active for five or more years. 6 The taxpayer shall have been certified by the chief director of the 7 United States Coast Guard Auxiliary as an enrolled and active member of 8 the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary for at least five years. The 9 commissioner shall determine the procedure for such certification. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 11 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. LBD02646-01-9