Bill Text: NY A00364 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Exempts low-emission and energy efficient vehicles from retail sales and compensating use taxes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-29 - print number 364a [A00364 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00364-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         364--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW, FARRELL, SCHIMMINGER, COLTON, SCHIMEL --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommit-
          ted  to  the  Committee  on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting low-emission and
          energy efficient vehicles  from  retail  sales  and  compensating  use
          taxes; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration
          thereof
          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 1115 of the tax law  is  amended
     2  by adding a new paragraph 44 to read as follows:
     3    (44)  Low-emission and energy efficient vehicles. For purposes of this
     4  paragraph, a "low-emission and energy efficient vehicle"  shall  mean  a
     5  vehicle  certified  by  the  administrator of the United States environ-
     6  mental protection agency pursuant to  23  U.S.C.  §  166(f)(3).  If  the
     7  administrator  of  the United States environmental protection agency has
     8  not so certified any vehicle as  a  low-emission  and  energy  efficient
     9  vehicle, then, until such certification occurs, "low-emission and energy
    10  efficient  vehicle"  shall  mean  any  vehicle  that has achieved an air
    11  pollution score of nine or better and a greenhouse gas score of nine  or
    12  better  on the green vehicle guide maintained by the United States envi-
    13  ronmental protection agency. The department shall post on its web site a
    14  list of low-emission and energy efficient vehicles  by  make  and  model
    15  year  and  such  other  specifications as may be necessary to identify a
    16  low-emission and energy efficient vehicle, and shall update such list as
    17  necessary to provide a complete list of low-emission  and  energy  effi-
    18  cient vehicles.  The exemptions provided by this section shall be offset
    19  by  the  proceeds collected from the auction of any emissions allowances
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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