A 5782: Excludes from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker, thereby exempting such payments from state income tax in like manner as a pension.
What A 5782 does, verified January 9, 2026
The bill aims to exclude from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker. This means that these individuals will not be required to pay taxes on the service awards they receive. The bill would amend the tax law to include these service awards in the calculation of federal adjusted gross income. The changes would take effect immediately.
Bill journey
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Last action: referred to ways and means (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about A 5782
- What is the current status of A 5782?
- As of January 9, 2026, A 5782 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "referred to ways and means".
- Did A 5782 pass?
- Not yet. A 5782 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote A 5782, and where is it now?
- A 5782 was authored by Asm. Daniel Norber. Its committee of record is Assembly Ways & Means. It is filed under TAX, alongside 323 other New York TAX bills this session.
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to ways and means |
| Feb. 20, 2025 | referred to ways and means |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 20, 2025 · 190 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5782 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NORBER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to excluding from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volun- teer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker 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 48 to read as follows: 3 (48) The amount of any service award paid to any volunteer firefighter 4 pursuant to article eleven-A of the general municipal law and the amount 5 of any service award paid to any volunteer ambulance worker pursuant to 6 article eleven-AA of the general municipal law. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09786-01-5
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