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Assembly Bill A9149

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts payments in lieu of taxes received or receivable with regards to renewable energy projects from local governments' tax cap calculations

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2025-A9149 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-c, Gen Muni L

2025-A9149 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts payments in lieu of taxes received or receivable with regards to renewable energy projects from local governments' tax cap calculations; defines term.

2025-A9149 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9149
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  exempting
   payments  in  lieu  of  taxes  received  or receivable with regards to
   renewable energy projects from local governments' tax cap calculations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 3-c of the general municipal law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
   (C-1) NOTWITHSTANDING SUBPARAGRAPHS (III) AND (VI) OF PARAGRAPH (C) OF
 THIS SUBDIVISION, IN CALCULATING THE TAX LEVY LIMIT  APPLICABLE  TO  THE
 COMING  FISCAL  YEAR  UNDER  PARAGRAPH  (C)  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION, LOCAL
 GOVERNMENTS SHALL EXCLUDE ANY PAYMENTS IN  LIEU  OF  TAXES  RECEIVED  OR
 RECEIVABLE  WITH REGARDS TO A RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECT. FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE TERM "RENEWABLE  ENERGY  PROJECT"  SHALL  MEAN  A
 PROJECT  FOR GENERATING, DISTRIBUTING, OR CONSUMING RENEWABLE ENERGY, AS
 DEFINED BY SECTION SIXTY-SIX-P OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13796-02-5

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