Senate Bill S8035

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing a real property tax exemption for reservists

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs 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-S8035 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3474
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §458-c, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A8277
2013-2014: A6027
2015-2016: A8486
2017-2018: A4091

2019-S8035 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a real property tax exemption for reservists.

2019-S8035 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8035 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8035
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 11, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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  establishing
   an exemption for reservists
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The real property tax  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 458-c to read as follows:
   §  458-C. RESERVIST EXEMPTION. 1. THE FOLLOWING TERMS WHENEVER USED OR
 REFERRED TO IN THIS SECTION SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS  UNLESS  A
 DIFFERENT MEANING CLEARLY APPEARS IN THE CONTEXT:
   (A)  "RESERVIST"  MEANS ANY MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE FORCE OF THE
 UNITED STATES MILITARY.
   (B) "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.
   (C) "SERVICE CONNECTED" MEANS, WITH RESPECT TO  DISABILITY  OR  DEATH,
 THAT  SUCH  DISABILITY  WAS  INCURRED  OR  AGGRAVATED, OR THAT THE DEATH
 RESULTED FROM A DISABILITY INCURRED OR AGGRAVATED, IN LINE  OF  DUTY  IN
 THE ACTIVE MILITARY, NAVAL OR AIR SERVICE.
   (D)  "QUALIFIED OWNER" MEANS A RESERVIST, THE SPOUSE OF A RESERVIST OR
 THE UNREMARRIED SURVIVING SPOUSE OF A RESERVIST. WHERE PROPERTY IS OWNED
 BY MORE THAN ONE QUALIFIED OWNER, THE EXEMPTION TO WHICH EACH  IS  ENTI-
 TLED  MAY BE COMBINED. WHERE A RESERVIST IS ALSO THE UNREMARRIED SURVIV-
 ING SPOUSE OF A RESERVIST OR VETERAN, SUCH PERSON MAY ALSO  RECEIVE  ANY
 EXEMPTION TO WHICH THE DECEASED SPOUSE WAS ENTITLED.
   (E)  "QUALIFYING  RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY" MEANS PROPERTY OWNED BY A
 QUALIFIED OWNER WHICH IS  USED  EXCLUSIVELY  FOR  RESIDENTIAL  PURPOSES;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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