A 6396: Relates to the amount and deposit of public safety communications surcharges; distributes a portion of such surcharges collected to the municipal first responder grants fund.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6396 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TANNOUSIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to public safety communications surcharges and distributes a portion of such surcharges collected to the municipal first responder grants fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 186-f of the tax law, as added by 2 section 3 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, paragraph (b) as 3 amended by section 1 of part Q of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 5. Deposits of surcharge monies collected and received. Notwithstand- 6 ing any provision of law to the contrary, all surcharge monies collected 7 and received by the commissioner under this section must be deposited 8 daily to the credit of the comptroller with those responsible banks, 9 banking houses or trust companies the comptroller may designate. Those 10 deposits must be kept separate and apart from all other monies in the 11 possession of the comptroller. The comptroller must require adequate 12 security from all such depositories. Of the total revenue collected or 13 received under this section, the comptroller must retain in the comp- 14 troller's hands an amount determined by the commissioner to be necessary 15 for refunds under this section, out of which the comptroller will pay 16 any refunds to which taxpayers are entitled under the provisions of this 17 section. The comptroller, after reserving the amount to pay refunds, 18 must, on or before the tenth day of each month, pay all surcharge monies 19 collected and received under this section and remaining to the comp- 20 troller's credit as follows: 21 (a) forty-one and seven-tenths of the revenues collected and received 22 under this section into the [state general] municipal first responder 23 grants fund; and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09675-01-5 
 A. 6396 2 1 (b) after deducting the amount paid under paragraph (a) of this subdi- 2 vision and the amount retained by wireless communications suppliers 3 pursuant to paragraph (d) of subdivision two of this section, the 4 balance of the revenues collected under this section into the statewide 5 public safety communications account of the miscellaneous special reven- 6 ue fund, created pursuant to section ninety-seven-qq of the state 7 finance law. 8 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 186-f of the tax law is amended by 9 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows: 10 (h) The sum equal to the amount identified in paragraph (a) of subdi- 11 vision five of this section shall be credited to the municipal first 12 responder grants fund. This fund shall be used for the purpose of 13 supplying grants for the purchase of personal equipment, apparatus, 14 rescue gear, air systems, turnout gear, hazmat systems, and communi- 15 cation technology. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.