STATE OF NEW YORK
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1580
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting the sale of
certain insecticides from state sales and use taxes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1115 of the tax law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision (z) to read as follows:
3 (z) (1) Receipts from the retail sale of, and consideration given or
4 contracted to be given for, or for the use of insecticide in treatment
5 of the species agrilus planipennis, commonly known as the emerald ash
6 borer shall be exempt from tax under this article.
7 (2) For the purposes of this subdivision, "insecticide" shall mean any
8 chemical compound governed by the federal insecticide, fungicide, and
9 rodenticide act and registered with the United States environmental
10 protection agency pursuant to section one hundred thirty-six a of title
11 seven of the United States code, in which the active ingredient is
12 emamectin benzoate, dinotefuran, imidacloprid, imidacloprid and cloth-
13 ianidin, or azadirachtin.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
15 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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