Relates to the amount and deposit of public safety communications surcharges; distributes a portion of such surcharges collected to the municipal first responder grants fund.
Enacts the "NYS health care tax reform act"; establishes a public goods surcharge on insurance corporations; establishes a public goods surcharge on business corporations; establishes a public goods surcharge on pass-through entities; relates to filing fee surcharges; relates to revenues to be included in the health care reform act resources fund.
Enacts the "NYS health care tax reform act"; establishes a public goods surcharge on insurance corporations; establishes a public goods surcharge on business corporations; establishes a public goods surcharge on pass-through entities; relates to filing fee surcharges; relates to revenues to be included in the health care reform act resources fund.
Dedicates unencumbered revenue collected from motor vehicle fees and surcharges to Transportation Trust Fund.
Dedicates unencumbered revenue collected from motor vehicle fees and surcharges to Transportation Trust Fund.
Courts - Surcharges and Payment to Special Funds
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part G).
Relating to the driver responsibility program; reducing the amounts of surcharges.
Communications: California Advanced Services Fund: deaf and disabled telecommunications program: surcharges.
Relating to the distribution of certain taxes and surcharges to benefit volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments