File #: Int 0351-1998    Version: Name: Transportation Benefits, City Employees
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 7/15/1998
Enactment date: 4/12/2000 Law number: 2000/018
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing city employees to use pre-tax earnings to purchase qualified transportation benefits in accordance with Federal law.
Sponsors: Peter F. Vallone, Herbert E. Berman, Noach Dear, Lucy Cruz, Sheldon S. Leffler, June M. Eisland, Kenneth K. Fisher, Kathryn E. Freed, Karen Koslowitz, Helen M. Marshall, Walter L. McCaffrey, Stanley E. Michels, Gifford Miller, Christine C. Quinn, Victor L. Robles, Angel Rodriguez, Archie W. Spigner, Priscilla A. Wooten, Margarita Lopez, Michael C. Nelson, Alphonse Stabile, Howard L. Lasher, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Morton Povman, Philip Reed, Annette M. Robinson, John D. Sabini, Guillermo Linares
Council Member Sponsors: 28
Attachments: 1. Fiscal Impact Statement
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
4/12/2000APeter F. Vallone City Council Overridden by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/12/2000APeter F. Vallone Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/12/2000APeter F. Vallone Committee on Transportation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
3/22/2000APeter F. Vallone City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/22/2000APeter F. Vallone Mayor Vetoed by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/16/2000APeter F. Vallone Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/29/2000APeter F. Vallone City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/29/2000APeter F. Vallone City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/8/2000APeter F. Vallone City Council Laid Over by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/27/2000APeter F. Vallone Committee on Transportation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
1/27/2000APeter F. Vallone Committee on Transportation Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/27/2000APeter F. Vallone Committee on Transportation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/27/2000APeter F. Vallone Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/15/1998APeter F. Vallone Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/15/1998APeter F. Vallone City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/15/1998APeter F. Vallone City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 351-A

 

By The Speaker (Council Member Vallone) and Council Members Berman, Dear, Cruz, Leffler, Eisland, Fisher, Freed, Koslowitz, Marshall, McCaffrey, Michels, Miller, Quinn, Robles, Rodriguez, Spigner, Wooten, Lopez, Nelson and Stabile; also Council Members Lasher, O'Donovan, Povman, Reed, Robinson, Sabini and Linares

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing city employees to use pre-tax earnings to purchase qualified transportation benefits in accordance with Federal law.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 12 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 12-139 to read as follows:

§12-139 Election of qualified transportation benefits in lieu of taxable dollar compensation. Employees of the city of New York shall be permitted to use pre-tax earnings to purchase qualified transportation benefits, other than qualified parking, in accordance with federal law and shall thereupon be entitled to such personal income tax benefits as may be authorized by such law.

§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment into law, provided however, that the office of payroll administration shall take such measures as are necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, if required, prior to such effective date.

 

 

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