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Senate Bill S1676

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2019-S1676 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5941
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S1779
2023-2024: S1938
2025-2026: S3194

2019-S1676 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption; includes more recent hostilities in the definition of "period of war".

2019-S1676 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1676 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1676
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property  tax  law,  in  relation  to  defining
   "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
 property tax law, as amended by chapter 179 of  the  laws  of  2006,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) "Period of war" means the Spanish-American war; the Mexican border
 period;  World War I; World War II; the hostilities, known as the Korean
 war, which commenced June twenty-seventh,  nineteen  hundred  fifty  and
 terminated  on  January  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred fifty-five; the
 hostilities, known as the Vietnam war, which commenced February  twenty-
 eighth,  nineteen hundred sixty-one and terminated on May seventh, nine-
 teen hundred seventy-five; [and] the hostilities, known as  the  Persian
 Gulf   conflict,   which   commenced  August  second,  nineteen  hundred
 ninety[.]; THE HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE
 UNITED STATES IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM  FROM  SEPTEMBER  ELEVENTH,
 TWO  THOUSAND  ONE  THROUGH THE END OF SUCH HOSTILITIES; AND THE HOSTIL-
 ITIES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  IN
 NATO  RELATED  COMBAT  THEATERS IN SOMALIA FROM AUGUST, NINETEEN HUNDRED
 NINETY-TWO THROUGH MARCH, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR, BOSNIA IN DECEM-
 BER, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE THROUGH NOVEMBER,  TWO  THOUSAND  FOUR
 AND KOSOVO IN APRIL, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE THROUGH JUNE, NINETEEN
 HUNDRED NINETY-NINE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01138-03-9

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