Bill Text: NY S06724 | 2021-2022 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE [S06724 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06724-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6724 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 13, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue 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 45 to read as follows: 3 (45) 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 § 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. LBD11411-01-1
