Bill Text: NY S06591 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities; relates to providing notice to those eligible of the need for reapplication.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9223A [S06591 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06591-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6591--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 1, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Aging  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax abatement
         for rent-controlled and rent regulated  property  occupied  by  senior
         citizens or persons with disabilities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 467-b of the real property tax law
    2  is amended by adding two new paragraphs c and d to read as follows:
    3    C. THE ENTITY THAT ADMINISTERS THE  TAX  ABATEMENT  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
    4  SECTION  SHALL  DEVELOP  A  SYSTEM  TO ENSURE THAT PARTICIPANTS THAT ARE
    5  ELIGIBLE FOR THIS TAX ABATEMENT  PROGRAM  PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH  B  OF
    6  SUBDIVISION  THREE  OF  THIS  SECTION  AND  SUBSEQUENTLY BECOME ELIGIBLE
    7  PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION, SHALL HAVE
    8  TIMELY NOTICE OF THE NEED TO  REAPPLY  FOR  THE  TAX  ABATEMENT  PROGRAM
    9  DURING  THE  FIRST  REAPPLICATION  PERIOD  AFTER MEETING THE ELIGIBILITY
   10  CRITERIA OF PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF  THIS  SECTION  AND  FOR
   11  EVERY  REAPPLICATION  THEREAFTER  BASED ON THEIR ELIGIBILITY PURSUANT TO
   12  PARAGRAPH A OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION.
   13    D. AN ENTITY ADMINISTERING THIS PROGRAM SHALL NOT CONSIDER ANY  ELIGI-
   14  BILITY  CRITERIA  THAT  ARE NOT CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION IN DETERMINING
   15  WHETHER TO APPROVE OR DENY AN APPLICATION FOR THE TAX ABATEMENT PROGRAM.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the  amend-
   17  ments  to  subdivision  5  of section 467-b of the real property tax law
   18  made by section one of this act shall  not  affect  the  expiration  and
   19  reversion of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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