Bill Text: NY S02497 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a one-time personal income tax credit for up to $10,000 for the expenses incurred by a resident taxpayer in the course of donating his or her organs for transplantation; repeals the personal income tax modification, reducing federal adjusted income, for such expenses.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-5)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S02497 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02497-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2497 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HANNON, AKSHAR, AMEDORE, AVELLA, CARLUCCI, DeFRAN- CISCO, GALLIVAN, MARCHIONE, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, SERINO, SEWARD, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a personal income tax credit for organ donations; and to repeal paragraph 38 of subsection (c) of section 612 of such law in relation to the personal income tax modification, reducing federal adjusted income, for organ donations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new 2 subsection (ccc) to read as follows: 3 (ccc) Organ donation credit. (1) A resident taxpayer shall be allowed 4 a credit against the tax imposed by this article for qualified expenses 5 incurred, while living, in the course of such taxpayer's donation of one 6 or more of his or her human organs to another human being for the 7 purpose of transplantation in such other human being. The credit estab- 8 lished by this subsection shall only be allowed in the tax year in which 9 the human organ transplantation occurs, and may only be claimed for one 10 tax year during the taxpayer's lifetime. 11 (2) For the purposes of this subsection, the term "qualified expenses" 12 means the following unreimbursed expenses incurred by a resident taxpay- 13 er related to his or her donation of his or her human organ or organs 14 for donation to another human being for the purpose of transplantation 15 in such human being: 16 (i) travel expenses; 17 (ii) lodging expenses; and 18 (iii) lost wages. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04493-01-7S. 2497 2 1 (3) For the purposes of this subsection, the term "human organ" means 2 all or part of a liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine, lung or bone 3 marrow. 4 (4) The amount of the credit that may be claimed by a resident taxpay- 5 er pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. 6 (5) No part-year resident or non-resident taxpayer may claim the cred- 7 it established by this subsection. 8 § 2. Paragraph 38 of subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is 9 REPEALED. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to tax 12 years commencing on and after such date.