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Assembly Bill A4937

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the state pay taxes on the assessed value of properties of closed state prisons

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2023-A4937 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2745
Current Committee:
Assembly Real Property Taxation
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §532, RPT L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A3252, S2653

2023-A4937 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state pay taxes on the assessed value of properties of closed state prisons until such prison is reopened, used by another state agency, or is conveyed to a non-governmental entity.

2023-A4937 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4937
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMPSON, MILLER, E. BROWN, MAHER, MORINELLO,
   DeSTEFANO, GRAY, SMULLEN, LEMONDES, FLOOD, ANGELINO, K. BROWN, PALMES-
   ANO, BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Proper-
   ty Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to requiring  the
   state  pay  taxes  on the assessed value of properties of closed state
   prisons
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  532  of  the real property tax law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
   (M) ALL LANDS OWNED BY THE STATE WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY USED AS A STATE
 PRISON, INCLUDING THE IMPROVEMENTS ERECTED THEREON BY THE STATE,  BEGIN-
 NING ONCE CORRECTIONAL OPERATIONS HAVE CEASED AT SUCH PRISON, REGARDLESS
 OF ANY STATE OR CONTRACTED PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO MAINTENANCE OF RELATIVE
 FACILITY  GROUNDS  OR FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
 TO, BUILDINGS, HEATING SYSTEMS, OR COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, UNTIL  THE
 STATE BEGINS OPERATIONS UPON THE LAND THROUGH A STATE AGENCY OR THE LAND
 IS SOLD TO A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT WHERE SUCH
 LANDS  ARE  CONVEYED  TO  A NOT-FOR-PROFIT NON-GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY, SUCH
 ENTITY SHALL ENTER INTO A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES WITH  THE  RESPECTIVE
 LOCAL MUNICIPALITY IN WHICH THE FORMER PRISON IS LOCATED.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05054-02-3

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