Senate Bill S716

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to real property tax relief during the COVID-19 state of emergency

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  • 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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2021-S716 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §925-a, RPT L; amd §§11-224 & 11-224.1, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S8388

2021-S716 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides real property tax relief during the COVID-19 state of emergency by waiving interest and penalties for unpaid property taxes where an owner has suffered economic hardship during such emergency.

2021-S716 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S716 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    716
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law and the administrative code of
   the city of New York, in relation to enacting the coronavirus property
   tax relief act

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known as the  "coronavirus  property  tax
 relief act".
   § 2. For the purposes of this act, "economic hardship due to COVID-19"
 shall mean any hardship determined by the commissioner of finance of the
 city  of New York to be related to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus
 COVID-19, including but not limited to a loss of rental income, death or
 illness due to COVID-19 of an immediate family member or a fellow  prop-
 erty owner which has caused a hardship, loss of employment income due to
 the   place   of   employment's   compliance   with  government  ordered
 restrictions due to COVID-19, loss  of  investment  income  due  to  the
 economic  contraction  caused by COVID-19, or any other qualifying event
 the commissioner determines to be related to COVID-19.
   § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 925-a of the real property tax  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  522  of  the  laws  of 2007, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. Notwithstanding any provision of law  to  the  contrary,  during  a
 state  disaster  emergency as defined by section twenty of the executive
 law, the governor may, by executive order issued upon the request of the
 chief executive officer of a  county,  city,  town,  village  or  school
 district in the affected area, extend by up to twenty-one days the final
 date  for paying taxes without interest or penalty in such county, city,
 town, village or school district. If such an extension is  granted,  and
 any  taxes are not paid by the final date so provided, those taxes shall
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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