New York A 5782: Excludes from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker

Status: REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 5782

Sponsors: Daniel Norber

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A05782 Summary:

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Amd §612, Tax L

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Excludes from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker, thereby exempting such payments from state income tax in like manner as a pension.

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02/20/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5782

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. NORBER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Ways and Means

 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to excluding from federal
 adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volun-
 teer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker

 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 48 to read as follows:
 3 (48) The amount of any service award paid to any volunteer firefighter
 4 pursuant to article eleven-A of the general municipal law and the amount
 5 of any service award paid to any volunteer ambulance worker pursuant to
 6 article eleven-AA of the general municipal law.
 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09786-01-5

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