What's happening
This bill exempts certain environmentally certified dry cleaning equipment from New York sales and use taxes.
Why it matters
Encourages adoption of cleaner technologies. By exempting certain environmentally certified dry cleaning equipment from sales and use taxes, the bill creates a financial incentive for dry cleaners to upgrade to machines that reduce pollution and hazardous emissions.
Targets hazardous pollutants. The exemption applies only to professional cleaning systems that do not use EPA-classified hazardous air pollutants, directly supporting the reduction of toxic chemicals in the industry.
Requires state environmental certification. Equipment must be certified by the Department of Environmental Conservation, ensuring that only genuinely clean technologies—vetted by the state—benefit from the tax break.
Potential public health and environmental benefits. By promoting less polluting equipment, the bill could decrease exposure to harmful substances for workers, customers, and nearby communities, and contribute to improved air and environmental quality.
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Who cares
Dry cleaning plant operators
The bill would exempt qualifying DEC-certified pollution prevention or control equipment from sales and use taxes, limited to cleaning systems that do not rely on EPA-classified hazardous air pollutants and qualify for or are exempt from DEC air facility registration.
Department of Environmental Conservation
DEC would establish regulations for certifying eligible dry cleaning pollution prevention or control equipment.
Dry cleaning equipment suppliers
Sales of qualifying equipment, including machinery installed to reconstruct or replace pollution-control systems, would become eligible for the tax exemption.
Headline styles
No Tax on Green Dry Cleaners
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 26
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Print number 6914a
- Amend and recommit to ways and means
- Referred to ways and means
- Referred to ways and means
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Tax Break for Clean Dry Cleaners
In Senate Committee · Investigations And Government Operations · Sponsor Martin J. Golden
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6914--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 24, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to exempting certain dry cleaning equipment or machinery certified by the department of environmental conservation from sales and use taxes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1115 of the tax law is amended by adding a new paragraph 45 to read as follows:
(45) Equipment or machinery certified by the department of environmental conservation, pursuant to regulations promulgated by such department, for pollution prevention or control which, for purposes of this paragraph, shall mean any process, facility, device, fixture, equipment or machinery used primarily for the control, prevention or abatement of pollution or contaminants from the operation of a dry cleaning plant, including any structure, machinery or equipment installed in the reconstruction or replacement of such process, facility, device, fixture, equipment or machinery. This paragraph shall apply only to professional cleaning systems that do not rely on EPA Classified Hazardous Air Pollutants and qualify for or are exempt from air facility registration with the department of environmental conservation.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the sales tax quarterly period, as designated in subdivision (b) of section 1136 of the tax law, next commencing after this act shall have become a law and shall apply to sales made on or after the effective date of this act; provided, however that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of the foregoing provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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