STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6876 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting school supplies from sales tax during a specified period each year The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended 2 by adding a new paragraph 47 to read as follows: 3 (47) School supplies or items commonly used by a student in a course 4 of study for which the receipt or consideration given or contracted to 5 be given is less than one hundred ten dollars per item, which shall 6 include, but not be limited to, book bags or backpacks, textbooks, pens, 7 pencils, highlighters, crayons, markers, erasers, index cards, paper, 8 notebooks, binders, folders, scissors, rulers and calculators. Only the 9 purchases made during the fifteen-day period commencing on the fifteenth 10 day immediately preceding the first Monday in September, known as Labor 11 Day, and ending on Labor Day, during each calendar year shall be exempt 12 under this paragraph. 13 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the tax law, as 14 amended by section 5 of part J of chapter 59 of the laws of 2021, is 15 amended to read as follows: 16 (1) Either, all of the taxes described in article twenty-eight of this 17 chapter, at the same uniform rate, as to which taxes all provisions of 18 the local laws, ordinances or resolutions imposing such taxes shall be 19 identical, except as to rate and except as otherwise provided, with the 20 corresponding provisions in such article twenty-eight, including the 21 definition and exemption provisions of such article, so far as the 22 provisions of such article twenty-eight can be made applicable to the 23 taxes imposed by such city or county and with such limitations and 24 special provisions as are set forth in this article. The taxes author- 25 ized under this subdivision may not be imposed by a city or county EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05617-03-5
A. 6876 2 1 unless the local law, ordinance or resolution imposes such taxes so as 2 to include all portions and all types of receipts, charges or rents, 3 subject to state tax under sections eleven hundred five and eleven 4 hundred ten of this chapter, except as otherwise provided. Notwith- 5 standing the foregoing, a tax imposed by a city or county authorized 6 under this subdivision shall not include the tax imposed on charges for 7 admission to race tracks and simulcast facilities under subdivision (f) 8 of section eleven hundred five of this chapter. (i) Any local law, ordi- 9 nance or resolution enacted by any city of less than one million or by 10 any county or school district, imposing the taxes authorized by this 11 subdivision, shall, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contra- 12 ry, exclude from the operation of such local taxes all sales of tangible 13 personal property for use or consumption directly and predominantly in 14 the production of tangible personal property, gas, electricity, refrig- 15 eration or steam, for sale, by manufacturing, processing, generating, 16 assembly, refining, mining or extracting; and all sales of tangible 17 personal property for use or consumption predominantly either in the 18 production of tangible personal property, for sale, by farming or in a 19 commercial horse boarding operation, or in both; and all sales of fuel 20 sold for use in commercial aircraft and general aviation aircraft; and, 21 unless such city, county or school district elects otherwise, shall omit 22 the provision for credit or refund contained in clause six of subdivi- 23 sion (a) or subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred nineteen of this 24 chapter. (ii) Any local law, ordinance or resolution enacted by any 25 city, county or school district, imposing the taxes authorized by this 26 subdivision, shall omit the residential solar energy systems equipment 27 and electricity exemption provided for in subdivision (ee), the commer- 28 cial solar energy systems equipment and electricity exemption provided 29 for in subdivision (ii), the commercial fuel cell electricity generating 30 systems equipment and electricity generated by such equipment exemption 31 provided for in subdivision (kk) [and], the clothing and footwear 32 exemption provided for in paragraph thirty of subdivision (a) of section 33 eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter, and the school supplies or items 34 commonly used by a student in a course of study exemption provided for 35 in paragraph forty-seven of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred 36 fifteen of this chapter, unless such city, county or school district 37 elects otherwise as to such residential solar energy systems equipment 38 and electricity exemption, such commercial solar energy systems equip- 39 ment and electricity exemption, commercial fuel cell electricity gener- 40 ating systems equipment and electricity generated by such equipment 41 exemption or such clothing and footwear exemption, or such school 42 supplies or items commonly used by a student in a course of study 43 exemption. 44 § 3. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (a) of section 1210 of the tax law, as 45 amended by section 2 of part WW of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, 46 subparagraph (v) as amended by chapter 99 of the laws of 2025, subpara- 47 graphs (xii) and (xiii) as separately amended and subparagraph (xiv) as 48 added by section 6 of part Z of chapter 60 of the laws of 2016, is 49 amended to read as follows: 50 (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any 51 local law enacted by any city of one million or more that imposes the 52 taxes authorized by this subdivision (i) may omit the exception provided 53 in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph three of subdivision (c) of section 54 eleven hundred five of this chapter for receipts from laundering, dry- 55 cleaning, tailoring, weaving, pressing, shoe repairing and shoe shining; 56 (ii) may impose the tax described in paragraph six of subdivision (c) of
A. 6876 3 1 section eleven hundred five of this chapter at a rate in addition to the 2 rate prescribed by this section not to exceed two percent in multiples 3 of one-half of one percent; (iii) shall provide that the tax described 4 in paragraph six of subdivision (c) of section eleven hundred five of 5 this chapter does not apply to facilities owned and operated by the city 6 or an agency or instrumentality of the city or a public corporation the 7 majority of whose members are appointed by the chief executive officer 8 of the city or the legislative body of the city or both of them; (iv) 9 shall not include any tax on receipts from, or the use of, the services 10 described in paragraph seven of subdivision (c) of section eleven 11 hundred five of this chapter; (v) shall provide that, for purposes of 12 the tax described in subdivision (e) of section eleven hundred five of 13 this chapter, "permanent resident" means any occupant of any room or 14 rooms in a hotel or short term rental unit for at least one hundred 15 eighty consecutive days with regard to the period of such occupancy; 16 (vi) may omit the exception provided in paragraph one of subdivision (f) 17 of section eleven hundred five of this chapter for charges to a patron 18 for admission to, or use of, facilities for sporting activities in which 19 the patron is to be a participant, such as bowling alleys and swimming 20 pools; (vii) may provide the clothing and footwear exemption in para- 21 graph thirty of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred fifteen of 22 this chapter, and, notwithstanding any provision of subdivision (d) of 23 this section to the contrary, any local law providing for such exemption 24 or repealing such exemption, may go into effect on any one of the 25 following dates: March first, June first, September first or December 26 first; (viii) shall omit the exemption provided in paragraph forty-one 27 of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter; 28 (ix) shall omit the exemption provided in subdivision (c) of section 29 eleven hundred fifteen of this chapter insofar as it applies to fuel, 30 gas, electricity, refrigeration and steam, and gas, electric, refriger- 31 ation and steam service of whatever nature for use or consumption 32 directly and exclusively in the production of gas, electricity, refrig- 33 eration or steam; (x) shall omit, unless such city elects otherwise, the 34 provision for refund or credit contained in clause six of subdivision 35 (a) or in subdivision (d) of section eleven hundred nineteen of this 36 chapter; (xii) shall omit, unless such city elects otherwise, the 37 exemption for residential solar energy systems equipment and electricity 38 provided in subdivision (ee) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this 39 chapter; (xiii) shall omit, unless such city elects otherwise, the 40 exemption for commercial solar energy systems equipment and electricity 41 provided in subdivision (ii) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this 42 chapter; [and] (xiv) shall exclude from the operation of such local 43 taxes all sales of fuel sold for use in commercial aircraft and general 44 aviation aircraft[. (xiv)]; (xv) shall omit, unless such city elects 45 otherwise, the exemption for commercial fuel cell electricity generating 46 systems equipment and electricity generated by such equipment provided 47 in subdivision (kk) of section eleven hundred fifteen of this 48 chapter[.]; and (xvi) may provide the school supplies and items common- 49 ly used by a student in a course of study exemption in paragraph 50 forty-seven of subdivision (a) of section eleven hundred fifteen of 51 this chapter, and, notwithstanding any provision of subdivision (d) of 52 this section to the contrary, any local law providing for such 53 exemption or repealing such exemption, may be applicable only to the 54 purchases made during the fifteen-day period commencing on the fifteenth 55 day immediately preceding the first Monday in September, known as Labor 56 Day, and ending on Labor Day, during each calendar year. Any reference
A. 6876 4 1 in this chapter or in any local law, ordinance or resolution enacted 2 pursuant to the authority of this article to former subdivisions (n) or 3 (p) of this section shall be deemed to be a reference to clauses (xii) 4 or (xiii) of this paragraph, respectively, and any such local law, ordi- 5 nance or resolution that provides the exemptions provided in such former 6 subdivisions (n) and/or (p) shall be deemed instead to provide the 7 exemptions provided in clauses (xii) and/or (xiii) of this paragraph. 8 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be applicable to 9 taxable periods beginning on and after August first in the year next 10 succeeding the year in which it shall have become a law.