STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5557 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 8, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT in relation to placing a moratorium on selling property tax warrants to private companies for the period of the COVID-19 state of emergency; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provisions of law, rule or regulation 2 to the contrary, due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandem- 3 ic, the state shall institute a moratorium on the sale of property tax 4 warrants by municipalities to private companies for the period of the 5 COVID-19 state disaster emergency declared by executive order 202 of the 6 year 2020, as amended, that began on March 7, 2020. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 8 deemed repealed January 1, 2027. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03832-01-3