Bill Text: NY S01814 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1814 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires entities receiving a certain tax exemption to utilize New York State residents as at least eighty-five percent of its workforce during the course of a project for which the exemption is claimed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S01814 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S01814-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1814
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by Sens. ESPAILLAT, CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
         ment
       AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the employment
         of New York state residents by entities receiving certain tax breaks
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 485-b of the  real  property  tax
    2  law,  as  renumbered  by  chapter 305 of the laws of 1994, is renumbered
    3  subdivision 14 and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows:
    4    13. (A) ANY ENTITY SHALL NOT BE  ENTITLED  TO  RECEIVE  THE  EXEMPTION
    5  PROVIDED  BY  THIS  SECTION  UNLESS  AT LEAST EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT OF ITS
    6  EMPLOYEES ARE RESIDENTS OF THIS STATE OR  THE  ENTITY  FALLS  WITHIN  AN
    7  EXCEPTION LISTED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
    8    (B)  AN ENTITY MAY RECEIVE THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY THIS SECTION WITH
    9  A WORKFORCE WHERE LESS THAN EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT  OF  THE  EMPLOYEES  ARE
   10  RESIDENTS OF THIS STATE IF IT CAN SHOW THAT:
   11    (I)  IT  MADE DILIGENT EFFORTS TO HIRE RESIDENT EMPLOYEES, BUT NO SUCH
   12  EMPLOYEES EXISTED OR WERE QUALIFIED FOR THE EMPLOYMENT POSITION; OR
   13    (II) THE EMPLOYMENT POSITION REQUIRES  SPECIALIZED  TALENTS  THAT  CAN
   14  ONLY BE FILLED BY INDIVIDUALS WHO HAPPEN TO RESIDE OUTSIDE THIS STATE.
   15    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   16  have become a law and shall apply to any exemption claimed on  or  after
   17  such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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