New York A 4558: Enacts Shop-NY; establishes various exemptions from New York's sales and compensating use tax

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A04558 Summary:

BILL NOA04558 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCunningham (MS)

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSRChandler-Waterman, Colton, Davila, Forrest, Gonzalez-Rojas, Mamdani, Meeks, Rivera, Seawright,
 Shrestha, Weprin

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Requires the commissioner of health to develop a sustainability plan for the state university of New York downstate medical center; provides that such sustainability plan shall not limit or alter the rights of employees pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement.

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BILL NOA04558 

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02/04/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4558

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
 CHANDLER-WATERMAN, COLTON, DAVILA, FORREST, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, MAMDANI,
 MEEKS, RIVERA, SEAWRIGHT, SHRESTHA, WEPRIN -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT in relation to requiring the commissioner of health to develop a
 sustainability plan for the state university of New York downstate
 medical center

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds and
 2 declares that the state university downstate medical center is a vital
 3 component of our state's health care system. As one of three state
 4 hospitals and the only state hospital in the city of New York, it is
 5 incumbent upon the state to ensure that this hospital remains fiscally
 6 viable to continue to provide the health care services that the resi-
 7 dents of central Brooklyn deserve and depend on. The state university
 8 downstate medical center is one of the state's largest safety-net hospi-
 9 tals, which cares for all patients, regardless of their ability to pay.
 10 It predominantly serves people of color, low income, uninsured, underin-
 11 sured, undocumented and at-risk individuals who have limited access to
 12 affordable health care and who are more prone to suffer from serious
 13 disease and face higher morbidity rates than other patients across our
 14 city and state. Last year, the hospital had over three hundred thousand
 15 outpatient visits and has an average of fourteen thousand inpatients
 16 each year. It also provides seven thousand four hundred free health
 17 screenings a year and sponsors over one hundred community service
 18 projects annually.
 19 The legislature further finds that at the height of the pandemic, when
 20 the city of New York was at the epicenter, the state university down-
 21 state medical center stepped up as a COVID-only hospital and provided
 22 life-saving care to the sickest New Yorkers without any state funding

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05737-01-5

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 1 support. Serving COVID-only patients exacerbated the existing untenable
 2 financial situation of the hospital, which in large part, is due to
 3 years of state financial neglect and unequitable treatment. Provided
 4 further, the state university downstate medical center is a major part
 5 of the Brooklyn economy and is one of the ten largest employers in
 6 Brooklyn, providing employment to four thousand two hundred people. It's
 7 also responsible for nearly nine hundred million dollars in economic
 8 activity, generating nearly two hundred million dollars in tax revenue.
 9 The hospital is the heart of central Brooklyn and has the largest
 10 medical school in New York city, which offers training in fifty-six
 11 specialties across five schools and colleges and annually educates and
 12 trains nearly one thousand nine hundred students. The medical school
 13 student population is made up of nearly sixty percent students of color,
 14 produces the most physicians of color in the state of New York, and
 15 nearly seventy percent of two thousand twenty-two graduates remained in
 16 New York for their residency. This institution is an essential part in
 17 producing