NY State Senate Bill 2019-S1169

Senate Bill S1169

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs the department of taxation and finance to provide notice to property owners who are veterans when a school district grants a school tax exemption or abatement for veterans

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

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Jan 08, 2020	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
Jan 11, 2019	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs

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2019-S1169 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:: Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1310, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S6901
2021-2022: S6251

2019-S1169 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of taxation and finance to provide notice to property owners who are veterans when a school district grants a school tax exemption or abatement for veterans and provide direction on how to apply for such exemption or abatement.

2019-S1169 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1169

SPONSOR: AMEDORE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to directing the
department of taxation and finance to provide notice to property owners
who are veterans when the school district, in which their property is
situate, elects to provide a real property exemption or abatement to
veterans

 
PURPOSE:

Provides notice to certain veterans that are property owners that they
qualify for a school tax exemption or abatement for real property.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amends the Real Property Tax Law by requiring notice of
availability of a school tax exemption or abatement for property owned
by certain veterans.

Section 2. Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

School districts, by resolution, may elect to grant a school tax
exemption or abatement to real property owned by certain veterans in
their school district.

This bill would require school districts that pass such a resolution to
provide notice to the Department of Taxation and Finance within ten days
of the resolution's adoption.

Additionally, the Department of Taxation and Finance shall provide
notification to certain veterans that own real property in a school
district that grants the school tax exemption or abatement. The notifi-
cation shall be sent by first-class mail and shall provide the steps the
property owner must take in order to be granted the school tax exemption
or abatement. Countless veterans qualify for the exemption but are not
aware that such an exemption even exists and thus do not apply.

This legislation would ensure the veterans of this State, who have
sacrificed so much, are notified of a tax exemption that they rightfully
deserve.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2018: S.6901 - Referred to Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and
Military Affairs.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

Minimal to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law.

2019-S1169 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1169
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. AMEDORE, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
   land Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to directing  the
   department  of  taxation  and  finance  to  provide notice to property
   owners who are veterans when the school district, in which their prop-
   erty is situate, elects to provide a real property exemption or abate-
   ment to veterans
 
   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 1310 to read as follows:
   § 1310. NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF SCHOOL TAX  EXEMPTION  OR  ABATEMENT
 FOR PROPERTY OWNED BY A VETERAN. 1. ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT WHICH, BY RESOL-
 UTION, ELECTS TO GRANT A SCHOOL TAX EXEMPTION OR ABATEMENT TO REAL PROP-
 ERTY OWNED BY A VETERAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY PROVISION OF ARTICLE FOUR
 OF  THIS  CHAPTER  SHALL,  WITHIN  TEN DAYS OF ADOPTING SUCH RESOLUTION,
 PROVIDE NOTICE THEREOF TO THE DEPARTMENT.
   2. UPON RECEIPT OF A NOTICE OF THE GRANTING OF A SCHOOL TAX  EXEMPTION
 OR  ABATEMENT FOR REAL PROPERTY OWNED BY A VETERAN, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
 COMPILE A LIST OF ALL REAL PROPERTY OWNERS, WITHIN THE  SCHOOL  DISTRICT
 PROVIDING  SUCH  NOTICE,  WHO ARE VETERANS RECEIVING A REAL PROPERTY TAX
 EXEMPTION OR ABATEMENT FROM ANY OTHER  REAL  PROPERTY  TAXING  AUTHORITY
 PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER WHICH APPLIES TO THE REAL PROP-
 ERTY WITHIN SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
   3. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL, BY FIRST-CLASS MAIL, PROVIDE, TO EACH PROPER-
 TY  OWNER  WHO IS A VETERAN ON THE LIST COMPILED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
 TWO OF THIS  SECTION,  NOTICE  OF  THE  AVAILABILITY  OF  A  SCHOOL  TAX
 EXEMPTION OR ABATEMENT, AND THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS, IF ANY, THAT THE PROP-
 ERTY  OWNER MUST TAKE IN ORDER TO BE GRANTED THE SCHOOL TAX EXEMPTION OR
 ABATEMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01599-01-9

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