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Senate Bill S3563

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to permitting other qualifying members of a household to qualify for the disability rent increase exemption

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2025-S3563 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10927
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §467-b, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9161, A9686
2023-2024: S1150, A1422

2025-S3563 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits other qualifying members of a household to qualify the household for the disability rent increase exemption when they are not the head of household.

2025-S3563 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3563 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3563
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law,  in  relation  to  permitting
   other  qualifying members of a household to qualify for the disability
   rent increase exemption

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs b and g of subdivision 1 of section 467-b of the
 real property tax law, paragraph b as amended by chapter 188 of the laws
 of 2005 and paragraph g as added by chapter 360 of the laws of 2018, are
 amended to read as follows:
   b.  "Head  of the household" means a person (i) who is sixty-two years
 of age or older, [or] (ii) who qualifies as a person with  a  disability
 pursuant  to subdivision five of this section, OR (III) WHO IS THE RELA-
 TIVE OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF A QUALIFYING MEMBER OF THEIR HOUSEHOLD, and is
 entitled to the possession or to the use  or  occupancy  of  a  dwelling
 unit;
   g.  "QUALIFYING  MEMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD" MEANS A PERSON WHO QUALIFIES
 AS A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  FIVE  OF  THIS
 SECTION,  WHO  IS  NOT  THE  HEAD  OF THE HOUSEHOLD, AND WHO PERMANENTLY
 RESIDES IN THE DWELLING UNIT.
   H. "RELATIVE" MEANS WITH RESPECT TO A QUALIFYING MEMBER OF THE  HOUSE-
 HOLD,  (I)  A  SPOUSE,  DOMESTIC  PARTNER, PARENT, GRANDPARENT, SIBLING,
 CHILD, STEPCHILD OR STEPPARENT OF SUCH PERSON OR (II) ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO
 IS THE DIRECT DESCENDANT OF THE GRANDPARENTS OF SUCH PERSON.
   I. "Supervising agency" shall mean the appropriate rent control agency
 or administrative agency designated to administer the tax abatement  for
 rent-controlled  and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens
 or persons with disabilities pursuant to a  local  law,  resolution,  or
 ordinance passed pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04330-01-5

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