Bill Text: NY A07344 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants real property tax exemption to disabled veterans regardless of whether he or she served during a "period of war".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-16 - held for consideration in veterans' affairs [A07344 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07344-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7344
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 24, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. FITZPATRICK, McKEVITT, GIGLIO, KOLB -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the real property  tax  law,  in  relation  to  veterans
          alternative exemption
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
     2  property tax law, as amended by chapter 384 of  the  laws  of  2008,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (e)  "Veteran"  means  a person (i) who served in the active military,
     5  naval, or air service during a period of war, or who was a recipient  of
     6  the  armed  forces expeditionary medal, navy expeditionary medal, marine
     7  corps expeditionary medal, or  global  war  on  terrorism  expeditionary
     8  medal,  and  who  was  discharged  or released therefrom under honorable
     9  conditions, (ii) who was employed by the War Shipping Administration  or
    10  Office  of  Defense  Transportation or their agents as a merchant seaman
    11  documented by the United States Coast Guard or Department  of  Commerce,
    12  or  as  a  civil  servant  employed  by the United States Army Transport
    13  Service (later redesignated as the  United  States  Army  Transportation
    14  Corps,  Water  Division)  or  the  Naval Transportation Service; and who
    15  served satisfactorily as a  crew  member  during  the  period  of  armed
    16  conflict,  December  seventh,  nineteen  hundred  forty-one,  to  August
    17  fifteenth, nineteen  hundred  forty-five,  aboard  merchant  vessels  in
    18  oceangoing,  i.e.,  foreign,  intercoastal, or coastwise service as such
    19  terms are defined under federal law (46 USCA 10301 & 10501) and  further
    20  to  include "near foreign" voyages between the United States and Canada,
    21  Mexico, or the West Indies via ocean routes, or public vessels in ocean-
    22  going service or foreign waters and who has received  a  Certificate  of
    23  Release or Discharge from Active Duty and a discharge certificate, or an
    24  Honorable Service Certificate/Report of Casualty, from the department of
    25  defense,  (iii)  who  served as a United States civilian employed by the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11110-01-7
        A. 7344                             2
     1  American Field Service and served overseas under  United  States  Armies
     2  and United States Army Groups in world war II during the period of armed
     3  conflict,  December  seventh,  nineteen  hundred  forty-one  through May
     4  eighth,  nineteen hundred forty-five, and who was discharged or released
     5  therefrom under honorable conditions, (iv) who served as a United States
     6  civilian Flight Crew and Aviation Ground Support Employee of Pan  Ameri-
     7  can  World  Airways  or  one  of  its subsidiaries or its affiliates and
     8  served overseas as a result of Pan American's contract with  Air  Trans-
     9  port  Command  or Naval Air Transport Service during the period of armed
    10  conflict, December fourteenth, nineteen hundred forty-one through August
    11  fourteenth, nineteen hundred  forty-five,  and  who  was  discharged  or
    12  released  therefrom under honorable conditions, [or] (v) notwithstanding
    13  any other provision of law to the  contrary,  who  are  members  of  the
    14  reserve components of the armed forces of the United States who received
    15  an  honorable discharge or release therefrom under honorable conditions,
    16  but are still members of the reserve components of the armed  forces  of
    17  the  United  States provided that such members meet all other qualifica-
    18  tions under the provisions of this section, or (vi) who  served  in  the
    19  active  military,  naval,  or  air service for a period of more than one
    20  hundred eighty-five days and received a  compensation  rating  of  sixty
    21  percent  or  greater,  from the United States veterans administration or
    22  from the United States  department  of  defense  because  of  a  service
    23  connected disability.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided that the real
    25  property tax exemptions authorized by section 458-a of the real property
    26  tax law, as amended by section one of this act,  shall  first  apply  to
    27  assessment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring
    28  on or after August 30, 2008.