Bill Text: NY A07164 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits a claimant to submit an order determining compensation from the workers' compensation board as proof of disability for purposes of real property tax exemptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - substituted by s2574 [A07164 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07164-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7164

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SEPTIMO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Real Property Taxation

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax exemptions
          for persons with disabilities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) and the closing paragraph of subdivision 2 of
     2  section  459-c  of the real property tax law, as amended by section 2 of
     3  part B of chapter 686 of the laws  of  2022,  are  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    (b)  a  person  with  a disability is one who has a physical or mental
     6  impairment, not due to current use of alcohol or illegal drug use, which
     7  substantially limits such person's ability to  engage  in  one  or  more
     8  major  life activities, such as caring for one's self, performing manual
     9  tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning and work-
    10  ing, and who (i) is certified  to  receive  social  security  disability
    11  insurance  (SSDI)  or  supplemental security income (SSI) benefits under
    12  the federal Social Security Act, or (ii) is certified to  receive  Rail-
    13  road  Retirement  Disability benefits under the federal railroad Retire-
    14  ment Act, or (iii) has received a certificate from the state  commission
    15  for  the  blind  stating  that  such person is legally blind, or (iv) is
    16  certified to receive a United States Postal Service disability  pension,
    17  or  (v)  is  certified to receive a United States department of veterans
    18  affairs disability pension pursuant to 38 U.S.C.   §1521,  or  (vi)  has
    19  received  an  order  from  the  chair of the workers' compensation board
    20  pursuant to article two of the workers' compensation law determining  an
    21  award  for  compensation for permanent total disability, as such term is
    22  defined in subdivision one of section fifteen of  the  workers'  compen-
    23  sation  law, or of permanent partial disability, as such term is defined
    24  in subdivision three of such section fifteen.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06935-01-3
        A. 7164                             2

     1    An award letter from the Social Security Administration or  the  Rail-
     2  road  Retirement  Board,  or a certificate from the state commission for
     3  the blind, or an award letter from the United States Postal Service,  or
     4  an  award  letter from the United States department of veterans affairs,
     5  or  an order of determination of an award for compensation for permanent
     6  total disability or of permanent partial disability issued by the  work-
     7  ers' compensation board shall be submitted as proof of disability.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.