Assembly Bill A1560

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to exemptions available to veterans

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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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2019-A1560 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Real Property Taxation
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A5192
2021-2022: A1657
2023-2024: A3458

2019-A1560 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to exemptions available to veterans; requires school districts to provide the veterans alternative exemption; establishes that costs associated with such exemption shall be borne by the state.

2019-A1560 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1560
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law,  in  relation  to  exemptions
   available to veterans
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  2  and
 subdivision  4  of  section 458-a of the real property tax law, subpara-
 graph (i) of paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 332 of
 the laws of 2016, subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 899 of the laws of
 1985 and paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 as added by chapter 430  of  the
 laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
   (i)  The exemption from taxation provided by this subdivision shall be
 applicable to county, city, town, village and school  district  taxation
 [if  the  governing body of the school district in which the property is
 located, or in the case of a city with a population of  one  million  or
 more, the local legislative body, after public hearings, adopts a resol-
 ution,  or  in  the  case  of a city with a population of one million or
 more, a local law, providing such  exemption,  the  procedure  for  such
 hearing  and  resolution or local law shall be conducted separately from
 the procedure for any hearing and  local  law  or  resolution  conducted
 pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, paragraph (b) of subdi-
 vision  four,  paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  six and paragraph (b) of
 subdivision seven of this section]. THE COST OF PROVIDING SUCH EXEMPTION
 FROM SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXATION SHALL BE BORNE BY THE STATE.
   4. [(a)] Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section,  no
 later  than ninety days before the taxable status date next occurring on
 or after the thirty-first day of December nineteen hundred  eighty-four,
 the  governing  board  of  any county, city, town or village may adopt a
 local law to provide that no exemption shall be granted pursuant to this
 section for the purposes of taxes levied for such county, city, town  or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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