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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Senate Bill S5836
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 42nd Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) 21st Senate District
2025-S5836 (ACTIVE) - Details
2025-S5836 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5836 SPONSOR: SKOUFIS TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax billing addresses PURPOSE: The purpose of this bill is to relieve local assessor offices of the undue and completely unnecessary burden of adding a code to the notifi- cation forms for the creation or termination of a mortgage escrow account. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Amends section 518 of the real property tax law, banks or tax service organizations (TSOs) notify the County Director of the creation or termination of mortgage escrow accounts. The County sorts boxes of forms and forwards them to the appropriate assessor, who then adds a code to their data file for the bank or ISO. Small banks generally
2025-S5836 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5836 2025-2026 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax billing addresses THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 518 of the real property tax law, as amended by chapter 145 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows: § 518. Change in tax billing address. Where the assessor receives a report of a transfer occurring after the taxable status date, or is otherwise notified of a change in tax billing address, the assessor shall enter the new tax billing address on the data file, as that term is defined in section fifteen hundred eighty-one of this chapter. Where no such data file exists, the assessor shall enter the new tax billing address on the assessment roll. If the assessor does not have custody of the assessment roll when such report is received, [he or she] THEY shall report the new tax billing address to the person having custody of the tax roll, which person shall enter the new tax billing address on the tax roll. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to authorize a change of the name of the owner included in the data file or appearing on the roll. WHERE SUCH "TAX BILLING ADDRESS" IS A MORTGAGE INVESTING INSTITUTION OR AGENT THEREOF, THE ASSESSOR SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO MAKE AN ENTRY, PROVIDED THAT THE GOVERNING BODY OF A CITY, VILLAGE, TOWN, SCHOOL DISTRICT, FIRE DISTRICT OR COUNTY, AFTER A PUBLIC HEARING, ADOPTS A LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION PROVIDING THEREFOR. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07908-01-5
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