Bill Text: NY S05607 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for a taxpayer assistance authorization for households in the county of Schenectady; provides for a $250 rebate for property owners in Schenectady county with a qualifying STAR exemption or school tax relief credit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-22 - SIGNED CHAP.489 [S05607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05607-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5607--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT providing for a taxpayer assistance authorization for  households
          in the county of Schenectady

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Taxpayer assistance authorization for the county  of  Sche-
     2  nectady.  1. Generally. a. Notwithstanding any provision of any general,
     3  special or local law to the contrary, the county of Schenectady is here-
     4  by authorized and empowered to adopt and amend local laws in  accordance
     5  with this section to grant a taxpayer assistance payment to all eligible
     6  households  within  the  geographic  limits of the county for the county
     7  fiscal year 2023 in an amount not to exceed two hundred  fifty  dollars.
     8  No  such  local  law  may  be  adopted unless, as originally adopted, it
     9  authorizes such payment to be made in accordance with this section.  Any
    10  payment authorized by local law in accordance with this section shall be
    11  paid in the county fiscal year in which this authorization is granted.
    12    b. Such tax assistance payment shall be paid to a property owner with-
    13  in  the geographic limits of the county of Schenectady with a qualifying
    14  STAR exemption authorized by section 425 of the real property tax law or
    15  the school tax relief credit authorized by subsection (eee)  of  section
    16  606 of the tax law.
    17    2.  Eligibility requirements. a. To qualify for the rebate pursuant to
    18  subdivision one of this section the resident must have lived within  the
    19  county of Schenectady and been an owner of real property with a qualify-
    20  ing  STAR  exemption  authorized by section 425 of the real property tax
    21  law or the school tax relief credit authorized by  subsection  (eee)  of
    22  section 606 of the tax law on December 31, 2022.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08780-05-3
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     1    b.  The  recipient  of  such  tax  assistance  payment shall not be in
     2  arrears in the payment of taxes, charges or assessments due and owing to
     3  the county.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.