S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3450
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to defining
"period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
property tax law, as amended by chapter 606 of the laws of 2021, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) "Period of war" means the Spanish-American war; the Mexican border
period; World War I; World War II; the hostilities, known as the Korean
war, which commenced June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred fifty and
terminated on January thirty-first, nineteen hundred fifty-five; the
hostilities, known as the Vietnam war, which commenced November first,
nineteen hundred fifty-five and terminated on May seventh, nineteen
hundred seventy-five; [and] the hostilities, known as the Persian Gulf
conflict, which commenced August second, nineteen hundred ninety[.]; THE
HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES
IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM FROM SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE
THROUGH THE END OF SUCH HOSTILITIES; AND THE HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN
BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES IN NATO RELATED COMBAT THEA-
TERS IN SOMALIA FROM AUGUST, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO THROUGH MARCH,
NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR, BOSNIA IN DECEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE-
TY-FIVE THROUGH NOVEMBER, TWO THOUSAND FOUR AND KOSOVO IN APRIL, NINE-
TEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE THROUGH JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06664-01-5
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