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- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1606
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Print number 5944b
- Amend and recommit to finance
- Reported and committed to finance
- Print number 5944a
- Amend and recommit to investigations and government operations
- Referred to investigations and government operations
- Referred to rules
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Provides a tax credit to home owners who repair cock loft fire hazards in their homes
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Joseph Lentol
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BILL NUMBER:S5944B
Title of bill
An act to amend the tax law, in relation to providing a tax credit for a portion of the cost of repairing certain fire hazards
Purpose or general idea of bill
Provides a tax credit to homeowners who repair cock loft fire hazards in their homes.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 606 of the Tax Law is amended by adding a new subsection (ccc) to provide for a 30% refundable tax credit, up to a maximum of $500, for repairing fire hazards commonly known as cocklofts, which are defined as a completely enclosed space between the rafters and a suspended ceiling.
Justification
This legislation is introduced as a result of a major fires that have taken place in Queens and Brooklyn. In these cases, the fire began in a single family home fire which quickly spread down the entire block of homes because of the existence of cock lofts which connected these hous- es. Homes on the block were quickly consumed by the fire. If the cock lofts were closed off, the devastation these fires caused would probably not have been so great.
Row houses are no longer designed and built with cock lofts because of the fire hazard. However, closing off these, already in existence, passage ways is not considered by homeowners because there is no induce- ment to do so. This legislation will give homeowners the tax incentive they may need to correct this building flaw, which may one day prove useful in avoiding another catastrophe.
Prior legislative history
2013: S. 5944 - Referred to Senate Rules Committee.
Fiscal implications
To Be Determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014.
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