Senate Bill S224

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides for the same real property tax exemption for veterans to persons in active duty and deployed to the Persian Gulf, and/or wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S224 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2980
2011-2012: S2022

2013-S224 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the same real property tax exemption for veterans to persons in active duty and deployed to the Persian Gulf, and/or wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

2013-S224 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S224 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   224

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
  ty and Military Affairs

AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to adding  active
  military personnel who have been deployed to the Persian Gulf, Afghan-
  istan or Iraq wars to the veteran real property exemption

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (e) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of
the real property tax law, paragraph (a) as amended by  chapter  179  of
the laws of 2006 and paragraph (e) as amended by chapter 384 of the laws
of 2008, are amended to read as follows:
  (a) "Period of war" means the Spanish-American war; the Mexican border
period;  World War I; World War II; the hostilities, known as the Korean
war, which commenced June twenty-seventh,  nineteen  hundred  fifty  and
terminated  on  January  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred fifty-five; the
hostilities, known as the Vietnam war, which commenced February  twenty-
eighth,  nineteen hundred sixty-one and terminated on May seventh, nine-
teen hundred seventy-five; [and] the hostilities, known as  the  Persian
Gulf  conflict,  which commenced August second, nineteen hundred ninety;
THE HOSTILITIES, KNOWN AS THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN COMMENCING ON AND AFTER
THE ELEVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, TWO THOUSAND ONE,  TO  THE  END  OF  SUCH
HOSTILITIES;  THE  HOSTILITIES,  KNOWN AS THE WAR IN IRAQ, COMMENCING ON
AND AFTER THE TWENTIETH DAY OF MARCH, TWO THOUSAND THREE, TO THE END  OF
SUCH HOSTILITIES.
  (e)  "Veteran"  means  a person (i) who served in the active military,
naval, or air service during a period of war, or who was a recipient  of
the  armed  forces expeditionary medal, navy expeditionary medal, marine
corps expeditionary medal, or  global  war  on  terrorism  expeditionary
medal,  and  who  was  discharged  or released therefrom under honorable

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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