Bill Text: NY A06886 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the "homeowner mortgage refinance relief act"; exempts from a local mortgage tax or recording tax mortgagors who are refinancing real property; provides that the commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to establish grounds for qualifications, proof and procedure necessary for a mortgagor to obtain such an exemption.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A06886 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06886-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6886 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to enacting the "homeowner mortgage refinance relief act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "homeowner mortgage refinance relief act". 3 § 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 253-y to read as 4 follows: 5 § 253-y. Exempt municipal mortgage tax for refinances. 1. Every muni- 6 cipality which has enacted a local mortgage tax or recording tax pursu- 7 ant to the provisions of this article shall grant an exemption up to the 8 amount of the original mortgage from such tax where the mortgagor is 9 refinancing his or her real property. 10 2. The commissioner shall promulgate necessary and advisable rules and 11 regulations to establish grounds for qualifications, proof and procedure 12 necessary for a mortgagor to obtain such exemption. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately, 14 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- 15 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 16 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06294-01-9