Bill Text: NY A05117 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to offer real property tax credits to certain volunteers who live in one municipality but who serve in neighboring municipalities.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-28 - enacting clause stricken [A05117 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05117-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5117 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAIA, RA, BYRNE, LAWRENCE, MORINELLO, NORRIS, DiPIETRO, B. MILLER, D'URSO, PALMESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Real Property Taxation AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to volunteer firefighter and ambulance credits 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 466-k to read as follows: 3 § 466-k. Extension of benefits. Any governing body of a city, village, 4 town, county, or school district that has provided a real property tax 5 credit to volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers serving 6 the municipality in which they reside, notwithstanding any provision of 7 this title to the contrary, is hereby authorized to extend such real 8 property tax credit to any volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance 9 worker who provides such volunteer services to a neighboring city, 10 village, town, county, or school district. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07964-01-9