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Senate Bill S5588

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expands the Gold Star exemption

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2025-S5588 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L

2025-S5588 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the Gold Star exemption by including the War on Terror as a qualifying period of war and allows for the exemption where the Gold Star Parent's child has died in the United States from a service-connected disability.

2025-S5588 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5588 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5588
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to expanding  the
   Gold Star 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; AND
 THE HOSTILITIES, KNOWN AS THE WAR ON  TERROR,  WHICH  COMMENCED  OCTOBER
 SEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE.
   §  2.  Subdivision  7 of section 458-a of the real property tax law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
    (D) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, IF THE GOLD  STAR
 PARENT'S  CHILD  HAS  DIED IN THE UNITED STATES FROM A SERVICE-CONNECTED
 DISABILITY, THE EXEMPTION GRANTED IN THIS SECTION, SHALL BE  GRANTED  TO
 THE GOLD STAR PARENT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to taxable
 years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09438-01-5

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