Bill Text: NY A06140 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to including certain reserve veterans for purposes of the veteran alternative exemption; includes Operation Graphic Hand.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-15 - substituted by s4842a [A06140 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06140-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6140--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 16, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Veterans'  Affairs  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Veterans'
          Affairs in accordance with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax exemptions
          for certain veterans
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Section 458-a of the real property tax law is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10.  A  county, city, village or school district may adopt a local law
     4  or resolution to include those military  personnel  who  served  in  the
     5  Reserve  component of the United States Armed Forces that were deemed on
     6  active duty under Executive Order 11519 signed March twenty-third, nine-
     7  teen hundred seventy, 35 Federal  Register  5003,  dated  March  twenty-
     8  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  seventy  and  later designated by the United
     9  States Department of Defense as Operation Graphic Hand, if  such  member
    10  was   discharged  or  released  therefrom  under  honorable  conditions,
    11  provided that such  veteran  meets  all  other  qualifications  of  this
    12  section.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
    14  ment  rolls  on  the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after
    15  the second day of January next succeeding the date  on  which  this  act
    16  shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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