Assembly Bill A3381

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Clarifies the definition of veteran to include career members of the armed forces for purposes of the veterans alternative tax exemption

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  • 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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2023-A3381 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5967
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A6055, S4365

2023-A3381 - Summary

Clarifies the definition of veteran to include career members of the armed forces for purposes of the veterans alternative tax exemption by considering individuals who meet certain conditions to have been discharged or released from active military service of the United States despite the fact that no discharge may have been issued.

2023-A3381 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3381
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER, McMAHON, THIELE, D. ROSENTHAL, SIMPSON,
   MIKULIN, DURSO, COLTON, SILLITTI, SAYEGH -- read once and referred  to
   the Committee on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to clarifying the
   definition  of  veteran  to include career members of the armed forces
   for purposes of the veterans alternative tax exemption
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
 property  tax  law, as amended by section 83 of part PP of chapter 56 of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (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 (1) was discharged or released therefrom under  honorable
 conditions, or (2) has a qualifying condition, as defined in section one
 of  the  veterans' services law, and has received a discharge other than
 bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (3)  is  a  discharged
 LGBT  veteran,  as defined in section one of the veterans' services law,
 and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from
 such service, (ii) who was employed by the War  Shipping  Administration
 or Office of Defense Transportation or their agents as a merchant seaman
 documented  by  the United States Coast Guard or Department of Commerce,
 or as a civil servant employed  by  the  United  States  Army  Transport
 Service  (later  redesignated  as  the United States Army Transportation
 Corps, Water Division) or the  Naval  Transportation  Service;  and  who
 served  satisfactorily  as  a  crew  member  during  the period of armed
 conflict,  December  seventh,  nineteen  hundred  forty-one,  to  August
 fifteenth,  nineteen  hundred  forty-five,  aboard  merchant  vessels in
 oceangoing, i.e., foreign, intercoastal, or coastwise  service  as  such
 terms  are defined under federal law (46 USCA 10301 & 10501) and further
 to include "near foreign" voyages between the United States and  Canada,
 Mexico, or the West Indies via ocean routes, or public vessels in ocean-
 
              

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2023-A3381A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5967
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A6055, S4365

2023-A3381A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the definition of veteran to include career members of the armed forces for purposes of the veterans alternative tax exemption by considering individuals who meet certain conditions to have been discharged or released from active military service of the United States despite the fact that no discharge may have been issued.

2023-A3381A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3381--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER, McMAHON, THIELE, D. ROSENTHAL, SIMPSON,
   MIKULIN, DURSO, COLTON, SILLITTI, SAYEGH, McDONALD, SIMON -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to clarifying the
   definition  of  veteran  to include career members of the armed forces
   for purposes of the veterans alternative tax exemption
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
 property  tax  law, as amended by section 83 of part PP of chapter 56 of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (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 (1) was discharged or released therefrom under  honorable
 conditions, or (2) has a qualifying condition, as defined in section one
 of  the  veterans' services law, and has received a discharge other than
 bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, or (3)  is  a  discharged
 LGBT  veteran,  as defined in section one of the veterans' services law,
 and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from
 such service, (ii) who was employed by the War  Shipping  Administration
 or Office of Defense Transportation or their agents as a merchant seaman
 documented  by  the United States Coast Guard or Department of Commerce,
 or as a civil servant employed  by  the  United  States  Army  Transport
 Service  (later  redesignated  as  the United States Army Transportation
 Corps, Water Division) or the  Naval  Transportation  Service;  and  who
 served  satisfactorily  as  a  crew  member  during  the period of armed
 conflict,  December  seventh,  nineteen  hundred  forty-one,  to  August
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06348-02-3
              

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