New York S 8386: Authorizes businesses to designate work performed remotely due to the outbreak of COVID-19 to have been performed at its normal work location for state and local tax purposes

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S08386 Summary:

BILL NOS08386 

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Amd §§1266 & 1203-a, Pub Auth L

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Authorizes federal fingerprint background checks for certain MTA bus and Manhattan and Bronx surface transit operating authority applicants for employment.

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BILL NOS08386 

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06/06/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8386

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 June 6, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- (at request of the Metropolitan Transporta-
 tion Authority) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
 be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
 federal fingerprint background checks for certain MTA and New York
 transit authority applicants for employment

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 19 of section 1266 of the public authorities
 2 law, as added by chapter 261 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 19. (a) In connection with their lawful responsibilities or functions
 5 under this section, the MTA bus company, a subsidiary of the authority
 6 [and its subsidiaries, including Metro-North Commuter Railroad, the Long
 7 Island Rail Road, MTA bus and the Staten Island rapid transit operating
 8 authority, the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority, and the New York
 9 city transit authority and its subsidiary the Manhattan and Bronx
 10 surface transit operating authority, are authorized to request, receive
 11 and review criminal history information through the division of criminal
 12 justice services with respect to any person applying for a safety sensi-
 13 tive position. When requested, such applicant shall submit to the
 14 authority or the requesting affiliate or subsidiary his or her finger-
 15 prints in such form and in such manner as specified by the division, for
 16 the purpose of conducting a criminal history search identifying criminal
 17 convictions and pending criminal charges and returning a report thereon
 18 in accordance with the procedures and requirements established by the
 19 division pursuant to the provisions of article thirty-five of the execu-
 20 tive law, which shall include the payment of the reasonable prescribed
 21 processing fee for the cost of the division's full search and retention
 22 procedures and a national criminal history record check. The authority
 23 or requesting affiliate or subsidiary shall submit such fingerprints and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09975-01-5

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 1 the processing fee to the division. The division shall forward to the
 2 authority or the requesting affiliate or subsidiary a report with
 3 respect to the applicant's previous criminal history, if any, or a
 4 statement that the applicant has no previous criminal history according
 5 to its files. Fingerprints submitted to the division pursuant to this
 6 subdivision may also be submitted to the federal bureau of investigation
 7 for a national criminal history record check. If additional copies of
 8 fingerprints are required, the applicant shall furnish them upon
 9 request. Upon receipt of such criminal history information, the authori-
 10 ty or the requesting affiliate or subsidiary shall provide such appli-
 11 cant with a copy of such criminal history information, together with a
 12 copy of article twenty-three-A of the correction law, and inform such
 13 applicant of his or her right to seek correction of any incorrect infor-
 14 mation contained in such criminal history information pursuant to regu-
 15 lations and procedures established by the division of criminal justice
 16 services. The authority or the requesting affiliate or subsidiary shall
 17 ensure that adequate notice be provided to such applicant regarding the
 18 fact that state and national criminal histo