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Home/Bills/A 1030New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 1030: Exempts books, magazines, pamphlets and other related items sold at a primary or secondary school facility or at a library at a book fair organized, hosted or sponsored by an organization established for educational purposes, including but not limited to a parent-teacher association, booster club, or a similar school-based association which supports school activities, or a friends of the library organization from sales and compensating use taxes.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified April 23, 2026

What A 1030 does, verified April 23, 2026

The bill aims to exempt certain books, magazines, and other related items sold at book fairs held at schools or libraries from sales and compensating use taxes. These exempted items are sold at events organized by organizations established for educational purposes. The exemption applies to sales made at least 90 days after the bill becomes a law.

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4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to ways and means (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Karl BrabenecAngelo SantabarbaraNoah BurroughsGrace Lee
Recent actions2 total · showing 2
Jan. 07, 2026referred to ways and means
Jan. 08, 2025referred to ways and means
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 281 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1030 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RIVERA, BRABENEC, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting books, magazines, pamphlets and other related items sold at certain book fairs from sales and compensating use taxes 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) Books, magazines, pamphlets and other related items sold at a 4 primary or secondary school facility or at a library at a book fair 5 organized, hosted or sponsored by an organization established for educa- 6 tional purposes as described in paragraph four of subdivision (a) of 7 section one thousand one hundred sixteen of this part, including but not 8 limited to a parent-teacher association, booster club, a similar school- 9 based association which supports school activities, or a friends of the 10 library organization. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of a sales tax quar- 12 terly period, as described in subdivision (b) of section 1136 of the tax 13 law, beginning at least ninety days after the date this act shall have 14 become a law and shall apply to sales made on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01238-01-5 
Text of A 1030 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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