Assembly Bill A6984

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a property tax exemption for certain disabled veterans

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A6984 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Real Property Taxation
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L

2025-A6984 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a six thousand dollar property tax exemption for certain disabled veterans.

2025-A6984 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6984
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to establishing a
   property tax exemption for certain disabled veterans
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 458-a of the real
 property  tax  law,  as  amended  by chapter 100 of the laws of 1988, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (c) In addition to the exemptions provided by paragraphs (a)  and  (b)
 of  this  subdivision,  where the veteran received a compensation rating
 from the United States  veteran's  administration  or  from  the  United
 States  department of defense because of a service connected disability,
 qualifying residential real property shall be exempt  from  taxation  to
 the  extent of the product of the assessed value of such property multi-
 plied by fifty percent of the  veteran's  disability  rating;  provided,
 however,  that such exemption shall not exceed forty thousand dollars or
 the product of forty thousand dollars multiplied  by  the  latest  state
 equalization  rate  for  the assessing unit, or in the case of a special
 assessing unit, the latest class ratio, whichever is less. ADDITIONALLY,
 ANY VETERAN WHO RECEIVED A COMPENSATION RATING OF  ONE  HUNDRED  PERCENT
 FOR  A  PERMANENT  AND TOTAL SERVICE CONNECTED DISABILITY SHALL HAVE THE
 FIRST SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS OF THEIR PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTED REGARDLESS  OF
 THEIR  REAL  PROPERTY  TAX  ASSESSMENT.  For purposes of this paragraph,
 where a person who served in the active military, naval or  air  service
 during  a period of war died in service of a service connected disabili-
 ty, such person shall be deemed to have  been  assigned  a  compensation
 rating of one hundred percent.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a  law  and  shall  apply  to
 assessment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring
 on and after such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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