S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 290 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the real prop- erty tax exemption for cold war veterans THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 458-b of the real 2 property tax law, as added by chapter 655 of the laws of 2007, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (c) "Active duty" means full-time duty in the United States armed 5 forces, INCLUDING DUTY OF RESERVISTS CALLED UP DURING WARTIME REGARDLESS 6 OF THE PERIOD OF TIME, other than active duty for training. 7 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 8 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 9 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 10 tation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or 11 before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02185-01-5