Senate Bill S3238

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Enacts the "homeowner mortgage refinance relief act"

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • 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-S3238 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6886
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §253-y, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3869
2013-2014: S457
2015-2016: S677
2017-2018: S1582
2021-2022: S5783, A3075

2019-S3238 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "homeowner mortgage refinance relief act"; exempts from a local mortgage tax or recording tax mortgagors who are refinancing real property; provides that the commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to establish grounds for qualifications, proof and procedure necessary for a mortgagor to obtain such an exemption.

2019-S3238 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S3238 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3238
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the tax law, in  relation  to  enacting  the  "homeowner
   mortgage refinance relief act"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title.  This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
 the "homeowner mortgage refinance relief act".
   §  2.  The tax law is amended by adding a new section 253-y to read as
 follows:
   § 253-Y. EXEMPT MUNICIPAL MORTGAGE TAX FOR REFINANCES. 1.  EVERY MUNI-
 CIPALITY WHICH HAS ENACTED A LOCAL MORTGAGE TAX OR RECORDING TAX  PURSU-
 ANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL GRANT AN EXEMPTION UP TO THE
 AMOUNT  OF  THE  ORIGINAL  MORTGAGE FROM SUCH TAX WHERE THE MORTGAGOR IS
 REFINANCING HIS OR HER REAL PROPERTY.
   2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE NECESSARY AND ADVISABLE RULES AND
 REGULATIONS TO ESTABLISH GROUNDS FOR QUALIFICATIONS, PROOF AND PROCEDURE
 NECESSARY FOR A MORTGAGOR TO OBTAIN SUCH EXEMPTION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.   Effective  immediately,
 the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
 sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06294-01-9

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