Bill Text: NY S09169 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits the legislature to alter or repeal certain educational institutions' tax exempt status if such higher education institution fails to expel, suspend, bring charges of a hate crime or otherwise appropriately apply disciplinary action against any individual or group who knowingly and intentionally, while using the property or other resources of such institution, establishes a culture of bias or promotes acts of discrimination or allows for the reckless endangerment of an individual's physical health or safety.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-02 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S09169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09169-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9169

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MURRAY, GRIFFO, OBERACKER, ORTT -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to permitting the
          legislature  to  alter  or  repeal  certain private educational insti-
          tutions' tax exempt status

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 420-a of the real property tax law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c)  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of this section, the legislature
     4  may alter or repeal such tax exempt status of  any  private  educational
     5  institution  of  higher  learning that fails to expel, suspend, or bring
     6  charges of a hate crime under section 485.05 of the penal law, or other-
     7  wise appropriately apply disciplinary action against any  individual  or
     8  group who knowingly and intentionally, while using the property or other
     9  resources  of such institution, establishes a culture of bias or promote
    10  acts of discrimination or allows for the reckless  endangerment  of  the
    11  physical  health or safety of any of their employees, students, officers
    12  of such institution, clients of such institution, or visitors  or  other
    13  licensees using such tax exempt property or other resources.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date as a concurrent
    15  resolution amending the constitution, entitled "CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF
    16  THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to section 1  of  article
    17  16  of the constitution, in relation to real property tax exemptions for
    18  certain educational institutions", takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15332-02-4