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Sponsors
19 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.540
- Print number 6726a
- Amend (t) and recommit to rules
- Reported and committed to rules
- Referred to investigations and government operations
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting from sales and use taxes sanitary napkins and tampons
Purpose
To provide a state sales and compensating use tax exemption for sanitary napkins and tampons.
Summary of provisions
Section 1: Amends subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law by adding a new paragraph 4-a to add sanitary napkins and tampons to the list of exemptions from taxes on retail sales and compensating use taxes.
Section 2: Provides the effective date.
Existing law
Medicine, medical equipment, supplies to correct or alleviate physical incapacity, and products consumed by humans for the preservation of health are included in the list of items exempt from the sales and use tax, however cosmetics and toilet articles are explicitly excluded from the list unless they contain medicinal ingredients.
Justification
Several states, including Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, have already passed similar legislation to exempt certain feminine hygiene products from their sales tax. Some view a tax on such products as a "tax on women" since it is undeniably a necessity for women. It is an oversight to exclude other products which are intended to promote the health of citizens from a sales and use tax while at the same time imposing a tax on sanitary napkins and tampons, and this bill would correct that.
Legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of June next succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
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