New York A 5910: Relates to the public safety surcharge

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A05910 Summary:

BILL NOA05910 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00196

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SPONSORJones

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COSPNSRMcDonald

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §186-f, Tax L

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Removes language requiring the state from moving public safety surcharge funds into the state general fund; increases from seventy-five million dollars to one million dollars available for grants or reimbursements to counties for the development, consolidation, or operation of public safety communications systems or networks designed to support statewide interoperable communications for first responders.

Go to top A05910 Actions:

BILL NOA05910 

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02/24/2025referred to ways and means

09/08/2025enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5910

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 24, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the public safety surcharge

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 186-f of the tax law, as added by
 2 section 3 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, paragraph (b) as
 3 amended by section 1 of part Q of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is
 4 amended to read as follows:
 5 5. Deposits of surcharge monies collected and received. Notwithstand-
 6 ing any provision of law to the contrary, all surcharge monies collected
 7 and received by the commissioner under this section must be deposited
 8 daily to the credit of the comptroller with those responsible banks,
 9 banking houses or trust companies the comptroller may designate. Those
 10 deposits must be kept separate and apart from all other monies in the
 11 possession of the comptroller. The comptroller must require adequate
 12 security from all such depositories. Of the total revenue collected or
 13 received under this section, the comptroller must retain in the comp-
 14 troller's hands an amount determined by the commissioner to be necessary
 15 for refunds under this section, out of which the comptroller will pay
 16 any refunds to which taxpayers are entitled under the provisions of this
 17 section. The comptroller, after reserving the amount to pay refunds,
 18 must, on or before the tenth day of each month, pay all surcharge monies
 19 collected and received under this section and remaining to the comp-
 20 troller's credit as follows:
 21 [(a) forty-one and seven-tenths of the revenues collected and received
 22 under this section into the state general fund; and
 23 (b)] after deducting the amount [paid under paragraph (a) of this
 24 subdivision and the amount] retained by wireless communications suppli-
 25 ers pursuant to paragraph (d) of subdivision two of this section, the
 26 balance of the revenues collected under this section into the statewide

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00573-01-5

 A. 5910 2

 1 public safety communications account of the miscellaneous special reven-
 2 ue fund, created pursuant to section ninety-seven-qq of the state
 3 finance law.
 4 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 186-f of the tax law,
 5 as amended by section 38 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
 6 amended to read as follows:
 7 (c) Up to the sum of [seventy-five] one hundred million dollars annu-
 8 ally may be used for the provision of grants or reimbursements to coun-
 9 ties for the development, consolidation, or operation of public safety
 10 communications systems or networks designed to support statewide inter-
 11 operable communications for first responders, to be distributed pursuant
 12 to standards and guidelines issued by the state. Annual grants may
 13 consider costs borne by a municipality related to the issuance of local
 14 public safety communications bonds pursuant to section twenty-four
 15 hundred thirty-two of the public authorities law, when the municipality
 16 has qualified as an approve