Bill Text: NY S02599 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2599 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Increases, at local option, real property tax exemptions for combat veterans who are 100% permanently disabled.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-21 - referred to veterans' affairs [S02599 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02599-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         2599--B
            Cal. No. 514
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. LANZA, FELDER, HELMING, MARCHIONE -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the
          Committee  on  Veterans,  Homeland  Security  and  Military Affairs in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered  to  first  and
          second  report,  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to real  property
          tax exemptions for certain disabled veterans
          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 458-a of the real property tax law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b) and  (c)  of
     4  this  subdivision,  a  county,  city,  town,  village or school district
     5  acting by and through its governing body, may grant to a veteran, or the
     6  unmarried surviving spouse of such veteran, who served in a combat thea-
     7  tre or combat zone of operations, and who is one hundred  percent  disa-
     8  bled  as  a  result of military service, a one hundred percent exemption
     9  from real property  taxation.  The  local  maximum  exemption  allowance
    10  adopted  by  a  local  law pursuant to paragraph (d) of this subdivision
    11  shall not apply to such  exemptions  of  one  hundred  percent  disabled
    12  veterans.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
    14  ment rolls prepared on and after January 1, 2019.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02552-05-8