NY State Senate Bill 2019-S1904

Senate Bill S1904

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Eliminates the expiration of and makes permanent provisions of law establishing the property tax cap

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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 08, 2020	referred to local government returned to senate died in assembly
Jan 23, 2019	referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate
Jan 22, 2019	ordered to third reading cal.40 reported and committed to rules
Jan 17, 2019	referred to local government

Votes

- Jan 23, 2019 - Floor Vote
  S1904
  
  58
  
  Aye
  
  2
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  3
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jan 23, 2019
      
      aye (58)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Antonacci
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jacobs
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Ritchie
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      Young
      
      nay (2)
      
      Rivera
      
      Salazar
      
      excused (3)
      
      Boyle
      
      Flanagan
      
      Ranzenhofer
  Jan 22, 2019 - Rules Committee Vote
  S1904
  
  18
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jan 22, 2019
      
      aye (18)
      
      Benjamin
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Parker
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      excused (1)
      
      Flanagan

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2019-S1904 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: Real Property Taxation
Laws Affected:: Amd Part A §13, Chap 97 of 2011
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S1904

2019-S1904 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the expiration of and makes permanent provisions of law establishing the property tax cap.

2019-S1904 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1904

SPONSOR: GAUGHRAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend chapter 97 of the laws of 2011, amending the general
municipal law and the education law relating to establishing limits upon
school district and local government tax levies, in relation to elimi-
nating the expiration of and making permanent certain provisions thereof

 
PURPOSE:

The legislation would make the municipal and school district tax caps
permanent.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 repeals provisions that would sunset the tax cap upon speci-
fied legislative actions

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York residents pay the highest property taxes in the nation, either
in dollar terms downstate or as percentages of property value upstate.
In 2011 New York created a property tax cap that limits the growth of
tax levies to the level of inflation, capped at 2%.

The property tax cap has been effective at generating savings for prop-
erty owners and businesses. In the first three years in New York the
property tax cap has saved $2.6 billion and is projected to save more
than $11.4 billion over the first ten years of implementation.

Making this property tax cap permanent will help provide financial
stability to property tax payers around the State, particularly at a
time when federal tax policies are hurting many New York tax payers who
can no longer deduct the full value of their state and local taxes,
including property taxes, at the federal level.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2015-16: S.5597 Passed the Senate

2017-18: S.1207 Passed the Senate

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S1904 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1904
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 97 of the laws of  2011,  amending  the  general
   municipal  law  and  the education law relating to establishing limits
   upon school district and local government tax levies, in  relation  to
   eliminating  the expiration of and making permanent certain provisions
   thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  13  of part A of chapter 97 of the laws of 2011,
 amending the general municipal law and the  education  law  relating  to
 establishing  limits  upon  school  district  and  local  government tax
 levies, as amended by section 18 of part A of chapter 20 of the laws  of
 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   §  13. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 sections two through eleven of this act shall take effect July  1,  2011
 and shall first apply to school district budgets and the budget adoption
 process  for  the  2012-13  school  year; and shall continue to apply to
 school district budgets and the budget adoption process for  any  school
 year  beginning in any calendar year during which this act is in effect;
 provided further, that if section 26 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws
 of 2011 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then  section
 ten  of  this  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as such chapter of the  laws  of  2011,  takes  effect;  provided
 further,  that  section one of this act shall first apply to the levy of
 taxes by local governments for the fiscal year that begins in  2012  and
 shall  continue  to  apply to the levy of taxes by local governments for
 any fiscal year beginning in any calendar year during which this act  is
 in  effect[; provided, further, that this act shall remain in full force
 and effect at a minimum until and including  June  15,  2020  and  shall
 remain in effect thereafter only so long as the public emergency requir-

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

                                                            LBD07901-01-9

 S. 1904                             2

 ing  the  regulation  and control of residential rents and evictions and
 all such laws providing for such  regulation  and  control  continue  as
 provided  in  subdivision  3  of  section  1 of the local emergency rent
 control  act,  sections  26-501, 26-502 and 26-520 of the administrative
 code of the city of New York, section 17 of chapter 576 of the  laws  of
 1974  and  subdivision 2 of section 1 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946
 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, and section  10  of
 chapter  555  of the laws of 1982, amending the general business law and
 the administrative code of the city of New York relating to  conversions
 of  residential property  to cooperative or condominium ownership in the
 city of New York as such laws are continued by chapter 93 of the laws of
 2011 and as such sections are amended from time to time].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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