New York S 721: Enacts the "educator expense assistance act"

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S00721 Summary:

BILL NOS00721 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10197

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SPONSORRHOADS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §615, Tax L

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Enacts the "educator expense assistance act" to allow educators to deduct qualified expenses incurred by K-12 educators.

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BILL NOS00721 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

04/28/2026REFERENCE CHANGED TO BUDGET AND REVENUE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 721

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to allowing educators to deduct
 qualified expenses incurred by K-12 educators

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "educator expense assistance act".
 3 § 2. Subsection (d) of section 615 of the tax law is amended by adding
 4 a new paragraph 6 to read as follows:
 5 (6) up to three hundred dollars for educators filing a single person
 6 or six hundred dollars if married filing jointly and both spouses are
 7 eligible educators, but not more than three hundred dollars each of
 8 unreimbursed trade or business expenses paid or incurred for partic-
 9 ipation in professional development courses, books, supplies, computer
 10 equipment (including related software and services), other equipment,
 11 and supplementary materials. For courses in health or physical educa-
 12 tion, the expenses for supplies must be for athletic supplies. An eligi-
 13 ble educator shall be defined as an educator for the tax year if said
 14 educator served as a kindergarten through grade twelve teacher, instruc-
 15 tor, counselor, principal or aide for at least nine hundred hours a
 16 school year in a school that provides elementary or secondary education.
 17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02651-01-5

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