Senate Bill S647

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to making certain lands owned by the state subject to taxation for school purposes only

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 03, 2018	referred to local government
Jan 04, 2017	referred to local government

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2017-S647 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §536, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S6759
2015-2016: S58
2019-2020: S638

2017-S647 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to making certain lands owned by the state subject to taxation for school purposes only.

2017-S647 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S647

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to making
certain lands owned by the state subject to taxation for school
purposes only

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

The purpose of the bill is to add East Islip School District and
Connetquot School District to the law so that the local assessor will
be able to assess State land in those districts and tax the State for
school purposes only.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section 1: Adds Central 127 (Bohemia, Oakdale & Ronkonkoma) and Union
Free 161 (East Islip) to subdivision 1 of section 536 of the real
property tax laws by creating two new paragraphs (h) & (i).

Section 2: is the effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Under current law, the portion of Connetquot River State Park located

within the Central Islip School District is taxed for school purposes
only. However, the portion of the State Park located in Connetquot
School District is not taxable. A similar situation exists for state
owned lands in East Islip.

Current law is unfair to both East Islip and Connetquot School
Districts. Both school districts contain state land that the State
derives revenue from, yet these districts do not receive benefits from
those lands. Other school districts in the area presently receive tax
payments from the State for land owned by the State, and the East
Islip and Connetquot School Districts deserve their share as well.

Additionally, these lands which would otherwise be prime residential
property are not on the tax rolls, generating significant hardship for
these school districts. When these districts have taxable property
permanently removed from the assessment rolls the tax burden falls
disproportionately on the remaining taxable property. This bill would
relieve this tax burden by making approximately 2063 acres of land
from Heckscher State Park, 535 acres of land from the Bayard Cutting
Arboretum and 3546 acres of land from Connetquot River State Park
taxable for school purposes only.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015: Passed Local Government, died in Finance
2016: Died in Local Government

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

To be determined.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all taxable
years after this act shall have become law.

2017-S647 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    647
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. BOYLE, CROCI -- 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 making certain
   lands owned by the state subject to taxation for school purposes only

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 536 of the real property tax law
 is amended by adding two new paragraphs (h) and (i) to read as follows:
   (H) LANDS OWNED BY THE STATE EXCLUSIVE  OF  THE  IMPROVEMENTS  ERECTED
 THEREON  BY  THE  STATE,  SITUATE  WITHIN  THE CONNETQUOT CENTRAL SCHOOL
 DISTRICT, IN THE TOWN OF ISLIP, SUFFOLK COUNTY, WITH THE  FOLLOWING  TAX
 IDENTIFICATION  NUMBERS:  DISTRICT  0500,  SECTION  211, BLOCK 1, LOT 1;
 DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 211, BLOCK 1, LOT 3; DISTRICT 0500, SECTION  211,
 BLOCK 1, LOT 23.
   (I)  LANDS  OWNED  BY THE STATE, EXCLUSIVE OF THE IMPROVEMENTS ERECTED
 THEREON BY THE STATE, SITUATE WITHIN THE EAST ISLIP  UNION  FREE  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT  IN  THE  TOWN OF ISLIP, SUFFOLK COUNTY, WITH THE FOLLOWING TAX
 IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS: DISTRICT 0500, SECTION  211,  BLOCK  1,  LOT  4;
 DISTRICT  0500, SECTION 211, BLOCK 1, LOT 9; DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 211,
 BLOCK 1, LOT 10; DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 211, BLOCK 1, LOT  12;  DISTRICT
 0500, SECTION 211, BLOCK 1, LOT 13; DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 211, BLOCK 1,
 LOT  14;  DISTRICT  0500,  SECTION  211, BLOCK 1, LOT 15; DISTRICT 0500,
 SECTION 211, BLOCK 1, LOT 16; DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 211, BLOCK  1,  LOT
 17;  DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 211, BLOCK 1, LOT 18; DISTRICT 0500, SECTION
 211, BLOCK 1, LOT 19; DISTRICT 0500,  SECTION  211,  BLOCK  1,  LOT  24;
 DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 211, BLOCK 1, LOT 25; DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 448,
 BLOCK  1,  LOT  1;  DISTRICT 0500, SECTION 448, BLOCK 1, LOT 2; DISTRICT
 0500, SECTION 448, BLOCK 1, LOT 3.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  tax
 assessment rolls beginning with the 2018-19 assessment roll.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05390-01-7

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