Bill Text: NY S03679 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes a real property tax exemption task force.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-12-02 - APPROVAL MEMO.27 [S03679 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03679-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3679--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 12, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT relating to establishing the real property tax exemption task force, and providing for its powers and duties; and repealing such provisions of law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Real property tax exemption task force. There is hereby 2 established within the department of taxation and finance a real proper- 3 ty tax exemption task force. The purpose of the task force shall be to 4 study and prepare a report which shall include, but not be limited to 5 the following: 6 (a) the types and classifications of New York real properties that can 7 and have been granted tax exemptions; 8 (b) the number of each type and classification of real property grant- 9 ed a partial exemption and the number granted a full exemption and the 10 total value of each; 11 (c) the process by which each type and classification has been or can 12 be granted a tax exemption; 13 (d) the types and classifications of real property, if any, required 14 by federal law to be given a tax exemption; 15 (e) the number of real properties that have been given tax exemptions 16 by industrial development agencies and the total value of these tax 17 exemptions; and 18 (f) recommendations as to whether the types and classifications 19 permitting such tax exemptions should be continued or reformed. 20 § 2. The real property tax exemption task force shall consist of a 21 total of seven members and shall include: the commissioner of taxation EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05110-02-0S. 3679--A 2 1 and finance or his or her designee; the comptroller or his or her desig- 2 nee; the attorney general or his or her designee; one person appointed 3 by the temporary president of the senate; one person appointed by the 4 minority leader of the senate; one person appointed by the speaker of 5 the assembly; and one person appointed by the minority leader of the 6 assembly. All appointees to the real property tax exemption task force 7 shall be made no later than thirty days after the effective date of this 8 act. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority. 9 § 3. The members of the real property tax exemption task force shall 10 serve without compensation, except that members shall be allowed their 11 necessary and actual expenses incurred in the performance of their 12 duties under this act. 13 § 4. The department of taxation and finance shall provide the real 14 property tax exemption task force with such facilities, assistance, and 15 data as will enable such task force to carry out its powers and duties. 16 § 5. The real property tax exemption task force shall issue a report 17 of its findings and recommendations to the legislature within one year 18 of its establishment. 19 § 6. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 20 deemed repealed two years after such effective date, or upon delivery of 21 the report required by section five of this act, whichever comes first; 22 provided that the real property tax exemption task force shall notify 23 the legislative bill drafting commission upon delivery of the report 24 required by section five of this act in order that the commission may 25 maintain an accurate and timely effective database of the official text 26 of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the 27 provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the 28 public officers law.