Bill Text: NY A03023 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that community residences shall have their property taxes paid by the state; defines community residences to include facilities operated by or subject to licensure by the office of mental health or office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities; excludes family care homes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to real property taxation [A03023 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A03023-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3023
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 21, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CALHOUN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH,
         FINCH,  J. MILLER,  OAKS,  TEDISCO  --  read  once and referred to the
         Committee on Real Property Taxation
       AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to  property  tax
         exemptions on community residences
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The real property tax  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    2  section 306 to read as follows:
    3    S  306.  TAXABLE  STATUS  OF COMMUNITY RESIDENCES. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
    4  THIS SECTION, "COMMUNITY RESIDENCE" MEANS ANY FACILITY  OPERATED  BY  OR
    5  SUBJECT  TO  LICENSURE  BY  THE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH OR THE OFFICE OF
    6  MENTAL RETARDATION  AND  DEVELOPMENTAL  DISABILITIES  WHICH  PROVIDES  A
    7  SUPERVISED  RESIDENCE OR RESIDENTIAL RESPITE SERVICES FOR MENTALLY DISA-
    8  BLED PERSONS AND A HOMELIKE ENVIRONMENT AND ROOM, BOARD AND  RESPONSIBLE
    9  SUPERVISION  FOR THE HABILITATION OR REHABILITATION OF MENTALLY DISABLED
   10  PERSONS AS PART OF AN OVERALL SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM. A COMMUNITY RESI-
   11  DENCE SHALL INCLUDE AN INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITY WITH FOURTEEN OR FEWER
   12  RESIDENTS THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED PURSUANT TO LAW, AND A COMMUNITY  RESI-
   13  DENTIAL  FACILITY AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWENTY-EIGHT OF
   14  SECTION 1.03 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW. SUCH TERM DOES NOT INCLUDE FAMI-
   15  LY CARE HOMES.
   16    NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF ANY OTHER  LAW,  ON  AND  AFTER  THE
   17  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE REAL PROPERTY TAXES ON ANY REAL
   18  PROPERTY THAT IS DEFINED AS A COMMUNITY RESIDENCE PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVI-
   19  SION  TWENTY-EIGHT OF SECTION 1.03 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW OR PURSUANT
   20  TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE PAID BY THE STATE.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02824-01-1