Bill Text: NY S04627 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4627 (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 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-28 - referred to veterans' affairs [S04627 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04627-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         4627--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 1, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --  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
        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, as documented by the award of a United
     8  States campaign ribbon or service medal, or the armed forces expedition-
     9  ary  medal,  navy expeditionary medal, marine corps expeditionary medal,
    10  or global war on terrorism expeditionary medal, and who is  one  hundred
    11  percent  disabled as a result of military service, a one hundred percent
    12  exemption from real  property  taxation.  The  local  maximum  exemption
    13  allowance  adopted  by  a  local  law  pursuant to paragraph (d) of this
    14  subdivision shall not apply such exemptions of one hundred percent disa-
    15  bled veterans.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
    17  ment rolls prepared on and after January 1, 2016.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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