Bill Text: NY S02183 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enhances benefits for certain active or retired members of the New York state organized militia; enhances military pay, creates a property tax exemption, tuition award, and grants free vehicular access to any state park and recreational facility which charges fees for vehicular access.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S02183 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02183-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2183
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 21, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LARKIN -- 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 military law, the real property tax law, the  educa-
          tion  law, and the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
          relation to benefits for certain active duty and  retired  members  of
          the New York state organized militia
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  210  of  the  military  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  418  of  the  laws  of 2004, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Each member of the militia ordered into the active service  of  the
     5  state  pursuant to sections six and seven of this chapter, shall receive
     6  for each day or part thereof of such duty the same pay and allowances as
     7  are received by members of the appropriate force of the armed forces  of
     8  the  United States of corresponding grade, rating and length of service,
     9  or one hundred [twenty-five] fifty dollars per day, whichever is  great-
    10  er.
    11    §  2.  The  real  property  tax law is amended by adding a new section
    12  458-c to read as follows:
    13    § 458-c. Exemption for property  owned  by  active  duty  and  retired
    14  members  of  the  New  York  state organized militia. 1. As used in this
    15  section:
    16    (a) "Qualified owner" means an active duty or retired  member  of  the
    17  New  York  state  army national guard or the New York state air national
    18  guard.
    19    (b) "Qualifying residential real  property"  means  real  property  at
    20  least fifty percent of which is owned by a qualified owner which is used
    21  exclusively  for  residential  purposes;  provided  however, that in the
    22  event any portion of such property is not so used exclusively for  resi-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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