Provides for a personal income tax deduction, once every three years up to six hundred dollars, for the testing of potable well water by a certified laboratory.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2238
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to providing for a personal
income tax deduction for certain well water testing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 612 of the tax law is amended by
2 adding a new paragraph 47 to read as follows:
3 (47) (A) Expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year, up to a
4 limit of six hundred dollars, for the testing of potable well water for
5 any substances that are to be monitored pursuant to section eleven
6 hundred twelve of the public health law and the federal Safe Drinking
7 Water Act (42 U.S.C. § 300g-1). Such modification shall only be claimed
8 by a property owner once every three years.
9 (B) To qualify for this modification, the well water testing must be
10 conducted by a state certified laboratory. Such certified laboratory
11 must notify the property owner if the well water sample exceeds the
12 standards for potable drinking water as set by the department of health.
13 The property owner must report any violation of the standards for drink-
14 ing water to the local municipal health department.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
16 years commencing on or after the first of January in the year in which
17 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05802-01-3
