Bill Text: NY S05918 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires medallion agents to manage payments of the congestion surcharge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-06 - VETOED MEMO.187 [S05918 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05918-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5918--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to requiring medallion agents to manage payments of the congestion surcharge The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1299-b of the tax law, as added 2 by section 2 of part NNN of chapter 59 of the laws of 2018, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any person 5 that dispatches a motor vehicle by any means that provides transporta- 6 tion that is subject to a surcharge imposed by this article, including 7 transportation network companies as defined in article forty-four-B of 8 the vehicle and traffic law, shall be liable for the surcharge imposed 9 by this article, except that in the case of taxicab trips and HAIL vehi- 10 cle trips that are also subject to tax pursuant to article twenty-nine-A 11 of this chapter, only the taxicab owner or HAIL base liable for that tax 12 shall be the person liable for the surcharge imposed by this article, 13 except where agents licensed by the taxi and limousine commission are 14 authorized on behalf of medallion owners to manage the medallions and/or 15 make payments of the surcharge as laid out in article twenty-nine-A of 16 this chapter, such agents are solely liable for making these payments 17 absent a good faith dispute of the amount owed. Where agents licensed by 18 the taxi and limousine commission are authorized on behalf of medallion 19 owners to manage the medallions and/or make payments of the metropolitan 20 transportation authority improvement zone surcharge such agents are 21 entitled to make batch payments of all medallions managed with an 22 accounting of each medallion trip represented in the batch payment. For 23 purposes of this section, the terms "taxicab trips," "HAIL vehicle 24 trips," "taxicab owner," and "HAIL base" shall have the same meaning as 25 they do in section twelve hundred eighty of this chapter. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11814-03-9