Bill Text: NY A09074 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to a minority and women-owned business enterprise participation goal requirement in order to receive exemption of new multiple dwellings from local taxation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-30 - print number 9074a [A09074 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09074-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9074--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 21, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Real Property Taxation -- 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 a minority and
          women-owned business  enterprise  participation  goal  requirement  in
          order  to receive exemption of new multiple dwellings from local taxa-
          tion for the purpose of fixing economic disparity
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 421-a of the real property tax law
     2  is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
     3    Any  new  multiple  dwelling  otherwise eligible for an exemption from
     4  taxation under this section must also be in compliance  with  the  goals
     5  for  minority and women-owned business enterprise participation pursuant
     6  to sections three hundred twelve and three hundred thirteen of the exec-
     7  utive law. Nothing in this section shall supersede an applicant's abili-
     8  ty to use a waiver as prescribed by such sections.
     9    § 2. The opening paragraph of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of  section
    10  421-a of the real property tax law, as amended by section 63-g of part A
    11  of chapter 20 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
    12    Application forms for exemption under this section shall be filed with
    13  the  assessors  between February first and March fifteenth and, based on
    14  the certification of the local housing agency as  herein  provided,  the
    15  assessors shall certify to the collecting officer the amount of taxes to
    16  be  abated.  If  there  be in a city of one million population or more a
    17  department of housing preservation and development,  the  term  "housing
    18  agency"  shall  mean  only  such  department of housing preservation and
    19  development. No such application shall  be  accepted  by  the  assessors
    20  unless accompanied by a certificate of the local housing agency certify-
    21  ing the applicant's eligibility pursuant to subdivisions two and four of
    22  this  section.  No  such certification of eligibility shall be issued by
    23  the local housing agency until such agency determines whether the appli-
    24  cant is in full compliance with the provisions of sections three hundred
    25  twelve and three hundred thirteen of the executive law, and the  initial
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13614-02-6