Bill Text: NY A06575 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for a deduction from personal gross income for expenses incurred in the adoption of a child in the foster care system.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2015-10-26 - tabled [A06575 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A06575-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6575
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 27, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY,
BARRON, BORELLI, CUSICK, HOOPER, MALLIOTAKIS, MOYA, PERRY, PRETLOW,
RAMOS, RIVERA, ROBINSON, RODRIGUEZ, SCARBOROUGH, SEPULVEDA, TITONE,
TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing for a deduction
from personal gross income for expenses incurred in the adoption of a
child in the foster care system
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 42 to read as follows:
3 (42) THE AMOUNT OF ADOPTION FEES INCLUDING ANY AND ALL MEDICAL AND
4 LEGAL FEES, COURT COSTS AND ANY OTHER RELATED EXPENSES PAID OR INCURRED
5 BY A TAXPAYER DURING THE TAXABLE YEAR IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADOPTION OF
6 A CHILD IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM.
7 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
8 taxable years beginning on or after the first of January in the year in
9 which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05615-01-5
