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Assembly Bill A2192

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Increases the base figure for the enhanced school tax relief exemption commencing in the 2018-2019 school year

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2019-A2192 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Real Property Taxation
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §425, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A8253
2013-2014: A4072
2015-2016: A2858
2017-2018: A1923

2019-A2192 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides relief for certain senior citizens through the school tax relief program, by increasing the base figure for the enhanced exemption for the 2020-2021 school year to seventy-five thousand eight hundred dollars, and providing for annual adjustments thereto based on the consumer price index.

2019-A2192 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2192
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to increasing the
   base figure for the enhanced school tax relief exemption
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  2  of
 section  425 of the real property tax law, as added by section 1 of part
 D-1 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, clause (A) as further amended  by
 subdivision  (b)  of  section  1  of part W of chapter 56 of the laws of
 2010, is amended and two new subparagraphs (vii) and (viii) are added to
 read as follows:
   (vi) For the two thousand nine--two  thousand  ten  school  year  [and
 thereafter]  THROUGH  THE  TWO  THOUSAND  NINETEEN--TWO  THOUSAND TWENTY
 SCHOOL YEAR:
   (A) The base figure for the enhanced STAR exemption  shall  equal  the
 prior  year's  base  figure multiplied by the percentage increase in the
 consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W)
 published by the United States department  of  labor,  bureau  of  labor
 statistics,  for  the  third  quarter of the calendar year preceding the
 applicable school year, as compared to the third quarter  of  the  prior
 calendar year. If a base figure as so determined is not exactly equal to
 a  multiple  of  one hundred dollars, it shall be rounded to the nearest
 multiple of one hundred dollars. It shall be the responsibility  of  the
 commissioner to annually determine such base figures.
   (B) The base figure for the basic STAR exemption shall be thirty thou-
 sand dollars.
   (VII)  FOR  THE  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE SCHOOL
 YEAR, THE BASE FIGURE  SHALL  BE  SEVENTY-FIVE  THOUSAND  EIGHT  HUNDRED
 DOLLARS  FOR  ELIGIBLE  SENIOR CITIZENS, AND THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR
 OTHER ELIGIBLE PERSONS.

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

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