NY State Senate Bill 2023-S7412

Senate Bill S7412

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the state to pay real property taxes on the assessed value of the Moriah shock incarceration correctional facility

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee

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- In Committee Senate
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Jan 03, 2024	referred to local government
May 23, 2023	referred to local government

2023-S7412 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A7573
Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §532, RPT L

2023-S7412 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state to pay all real property taxes on the assessed value of the Moriah shock incarceration correctional facility.

2023-S7412 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7412

SPONSOR: STEC
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to requiring the
state pay real property taxes on the assessed value of the Moriah shock
incarceration correctional facility

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To provide the Town of Moriah and the County of Essex as well as school
and other special taxing districts with full market assessed tax reven-
ues to relieve the economic burden resulting from displaced state work-
ers and subsequent economic activity associated with a fully functioning
State Prison

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Provides that lands owned by the state which were previously
used as Moriah Shock incarceration correctional facility pay full prop-
erty taxes to local taxing districts upon closure, and until their sale

or re-use by the state.

Section 2. Provides effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York State expanded the capacity of its correctional system state-
wide and in doing so, created a tangible economic spinoff associated
with the arrival of personnel necessary to manage operations. Often,
Correctional Officers, civilian staff, doctors, administrators, and the
like would become members of the surrounding community. Schools, busi-
nesses, and municipal services expanded to accommodate the needs and
lifestyle of these individuals and as such, the economy and tax base
expanded with it.

The Moriah community has been left with both a significant economic and
social vacuum that has a devastating impact as the result of the closure
of Moriah Shock. This bill aims to require that New York State remain
beholden to its responsibility for its part in the social contract they
presented and subsequently entered into when approaching Moriah as a
host for housing our State's criminal offenders.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined for State, none to Local

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.

2023-S7412 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7412
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEC  --  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 requiring  the
   state  pay  real  property  taxes  on the assessed value of the Moriah
   shock incarceration correctional facility

   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  THE
 MORIAH SHOCK INCARCERATION CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, INCLUDING THE IMPROVE-
 MENTS  ERECTED  THEREON  BY THE STATE, BEGINNING ONCE CORRECTIONAL OPER-
 ATIONS HAVE  CEASED  AT  SUCH  FACILITY,  REGARDLESS  OF  ANY  STATE  OR
 CONTRACTED  PERSONNEL  ASSIGNED  TO  MAINTENANCE  OF  RELATIVE  FACILITY
 GROUNDS OR FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BUILD-
 INGS, 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 ESSEX COUNTY AND
 THE TOWN OF MORIAH.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD11540-01-3

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