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Senate Bill S2331

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires entities receiving a certain tax exemption to employ New York state residents during the course of a project

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2017-S2331 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §485-b, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1959
2011-2012: S3009
2013-2014: S1814
2015-2016: S3712
2019-2020: S2867
2021-2022: S709

2017-S2331 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires entities receiving a certain tax exemption to utilize New York State residents as at least eighty-five percent of its workforce during the course of a project for which the exemption is claimed.

2017-S2331 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2331 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2331
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the employment
   of New York state residents by entities receiving certain tax breaks
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 485-b of the  real  property  tax
 law,  as  renumbered  by  chapter 305 of the laws of 1994, is renumbered
 subdivision 14 and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows:
   13. (A) ANY ENTITY SHALL NOT BE  ENTITLED  TO  RECEIVE  THE  EXEMPTION
 PROVIDED  BY  THIS  SECTION  UNLESS  AT LEAST EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF ITS
 EMPLOYEES ARE RESIDENTS OF THIS STATE OR  THE  ENTITY  FALLS  WITHIN  AN
 EXCEPTION LISTED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   (B)  AN ENTITY MAY RECEIVE THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY THIS SECTION WITH
 A WORKFORCE WHERE LESS THAN EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT  OF  THE  EMPLOYEES  ARE
 RESIDENTS OF THIS STATE IF IT CAN SHOW THAT:
   (I)  IT  MADE DILIGENT EFFORTS TO HIRE RESIDENT EMPLOYEES, BUT NO SUCH
 EMPLOYEES EXISTED OR WERE QUALIFIED FOR THE EMPLOYMENT POSITION; OR
   (II) THE EMPLOYMENT POSITION REQUIRES  SPECIALIZED  TALENTS  THAT  CAN
 ONLY BE FILLED BY INDIVIDUALS WHO HAPPEN TO RESIDE OUTSIDE THIS STATE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall apply to any exemption claimed on  or  after
 such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06943-01-7

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