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Home/Bills/S 851New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 851: Establishes a housing infrastructure tax credit to provide a credit of up to ten percent of costs for infrastructure projects related to the construction of new homes or multiple dwellings commenced and completed within a specific time period.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 11, 2026

What S 851 does, verified January 11, 2026

The proposed tax credit aims to encourage the construction of new homes and multiple dwellings by providing a financial incentive to taxpayers. The credit will be up to 10% of the costs for infrastructure projects, including electric lines, gas lines, sewer lines, septic systems, water lines, and wells, related to the construction of new homes or multiple dwellings. The projects must be commenced on or after January 1, 2026, and completed on or before December 30, 2031. The tax credit will be available to taxpayers subject to tax under Article Nine-A or Article Twenty-Two of the tax law. The tax credit will take effect immediately.

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Last action: REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS (2026-01-07)Alert me
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George BorrelloJack MartinsRobert OrttSteven RhoadsRob Rolison
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Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 407 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 851 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HELMING, BORRELLO, MARTINS, ORTT, RHOADS, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a housing infrastructure tax credit The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 50 to read 2 as follows: 3 § 50. Housing infrastructure tax credit. A taxpayer subject to tax 4 under article nine-A or article twenty-two of this chapter shall be 5 allowed a credit of up to ten percent of costs for infrastructure 6 projects, including but not limited to electric lines, gas lines, sewer 7 lines, septic systems, water lines, or wells, related to the 8 construction of new homes or multiple dwellings commenced on or after 9 January first, two thousand twenty-six, and completed on or before 10 December thirtieth, two thousand thirty-one. 11 § 2. Section 210-B of the tax law is amended by adding a new subdivi- 12 sion 61 to read as follows: 13 61. A taxpayer shall be allowed a credit of up to ten percent of costs 14 for infrastructure projects, including but not limited to electric 15 lines, gas lines, sewer lines, septic systems, water lines, or wells, 16 related to the construction of new homes or multiple dwellings commenced 17 on or after January first, two thousand twenty-six, and completed on or 18 before December thirtieth, two thousand thirty-one. 19 § 3. Section 606 of the tax law is amended by adding a new subsection 20 (bbb) to read as follows: 21 (bbb) A taxpayer shall be allowed a credit of up to ten percent of 22 costs for infrastructure projects, including but not limited to electric 23 lines, gas lines, sewer lines, septic systems, water lines, or wells, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01069-01-5 

 S. 851 2 1 related to the construction of new homes or multiple dwellings commenced 2 on or after January first, two thousand twenty-six, and completed on or 3 before December thirtieth, two thousand thirty-one. 4 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 

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