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Senate Bill S4239

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to exempting homeowners from tax increases for certain renewable energy systems

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2023-S4239 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §487, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S2658
2021-2022: S5496
2025-2026: S1902

2023-S4239 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to exempting homeowners from tax increases for certain renewable energy systems.

2023-S4239 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4239 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4239
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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,  in  relation  to  exempting
   homeowners from tax increases for certain renewable energy systems
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 487 of the real property tax  law,
 as  amended by section 1 of part X of chapter 59 of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   5. The exemption granted pursuant to this section shall only be appli-
 cable to (a) solar or wind energy systems or farm waste  energy  systems
 which  are  (i)  existing  or  constructed prior to July first, nineteen
 hundred eighty-eight or (ii) constructed subsequent  to  January  first,
 nineteen  hundred  ninety-one  and  prior to January first, two thousand
 thirty, and (b) micro-hydroelectric energy systems, fuel  cell  electric
 generating  systems,  micro-combined heat and power generating equipment
 systems, electric energy storage equipment or  electric  energy  storage
 system,  or  fuel-flexible  linear  generator electric generating system
 which are constructed subsequent to January first, two thousand eighteen
 and prior to January first, two thousand thirty,  AND  (C)  ALL  SYSTEMS
 DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION WHOSE STANDALONE
 OR  COMBINED  GENERATION  CAPACITY  DOES NOT EXCEED TWENTY KILOWATTS AND
 WHOSE STANDALONE OR COMBINED ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE CAPACITY  DOES  NOT
 EXCEED THIRTY KILOWATT-HOURS.
   §  2.  Subdivision  8  of  section 487 of the real property tax law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO EXEMPTIONS GRANTED PURSUANT TO
 PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 3. Subdivision 9 of section 487 of the  real  property  tax  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08790-01-3
 S. 4239                             2

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