Senate Bill S6017

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to eligibility for a real property tax exemption for members of the reserve

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Current 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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2023-S6017 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L

2023-S6017 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides eligibility for a real property tax exemption for current or retired military reservists based on participation in formal training activities.

2023-S6017 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6017 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6017
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 the  veterans'
   real property tax exemption with respect to members of the reserves

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 458-a of the  real  property  tax
 law,  as  amended  by section 83 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of
 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   10. A county, city, town, village or school district may adopt a local
 law or resolution to include those military personnel who served in  the
 Reserve  component of the United States Armed Forces that were deemed on
 active duty under Executive Order 11519 signed March twenty-third, nine-
 teen hundred seventy, 35 Federal  Register  5003,  dated  March  twenty-
 fourth,  nineteen  hundred  seventy  and  later designated by the United
 States Department of Defense as Operation Graphic Hand, OR  WHO  PARTIC-
 IPATED  IN  FORMAL  TRAINING  ACTIVITIES AS PART OF THEIR SERVICE IN THE
 RESERVE COMPONENT, if such member (1) IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER IN GOOD STAND-
 ING OR was discharged or released therefrom under honorable  conditions,
 or  (2)  has  a  qualifying  condition, as defined in section one of the
 veterans' services law, and has received  a  discharge  other  than  bad
 conduct  or  dishonorable from such service, or (3) is a discharged LGBT
 veteran, as defined in section one of the veterans'  services  law,  and
 has  received  a  discharge  other than bad conduct or dishonorable from
 such service, provided that such veteran meets all other  qualifications
 of this section.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that if section
 83 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022  shall  not  have  taken
 effect  on  or  before such date then section two of this act shall take
 effect on the same date and in the same manner as such  chapter  of  the
 laws of 2022, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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