NY State Senate Bill 2013-S6475

Senate Bill S6475

Signed By Governor

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A8639 - Signed by Governor

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Nov 21, 2014	signed chap.443
Nov 10, 2014	delivered to governor
May 28, 2014	returned to assembly passed senate
May 20, 2014	3rd reading cal.126 substituted for s6475
May 20, 2014	substituted by a8639
Feb 11, 2014	advanced to third reading
Feb 10, 2014	2nd report cal.
Feb 04, 2014	1st report cal.126
Jan 28, 2014	referred to local government

Votes

- May 28, 2014 - Floor Vote
  A8639
  
  59
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: May 28, 2014
      
      aye (59)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Avella
      
      Ball
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Espaillat
      
      Farley
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gipson
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Grisanti
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Martins
      
      Maziarz
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      O'Brien
      
      O'Mara
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sampson
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tkaczyk
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      Zeldin
      
      nay (1)
      
      Krueger
      
      excused (1)
      
      Smith
  Feb 4, 2014 - Local Government Committee Vote
  S6475
  
  9
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Local Government Committee Vote: Feb 4, 2014
      
      aye (9)
      
      Ball
      
      Boyle
      
      Gipson
      
      Latimer
      
      Marchione
      
      Martins
      
      O'Brien
      
      Ritchie
      
      Valesky

2013-S6475 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8639
Law Section:: Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1803-a, RPT L

2013-S6475 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to allowing certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions.

2013-S6475 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S6475

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation
to allowing certain special assessing units other than cities to
adjust their current base proportions

PURPOSE:

To allow special assessing units other than cities in the county of
Nassau to adjust their current base proportions.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amends section 1803-a of the Real Property Tax Law by
adding a new paragraph z.

Section 2. Effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:

Article 18 and 19 of the Real Property Tax Law provide that in
"special" and "approved" assessing units, class tax rates must be
established in accordance with a strict statutory formula.  One of the
elements of the formula is that the current base proportion of any
class may not exceed the adjusted base proportion for that class from
the prior year by more than 5%. To avoid hardship to homeowners, the

Legislature has overridden this 5% cap on an annual basis for a number
of jurisdictions, including Nassau County (Article 18) and the
approved assessing units in Nassau (Article 19), where a 1% cap has
been repeatedly set in recent years by special legislation. Until
these annual bills are enacted, however, there is a budgetary
uncertainty in these jurisdictions each year. Another concern is that
circumstances vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and the cap may
not work equally well for all of them. This bill gives special and
approved assessing units in Nassau County the authority to tailor
their "cap" to local conditions each year, thereby removing the annual
uncertainty and freeing them to do what is best for the local property
taxpayers in their neighborhood.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Chapter 84 of the Laws of 2013;
Chapter 73 of the Laws of 2012 (S.6867/A.9773);

Chapter 164 of the Laws of 2011 (S.5002/A.6462)

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to the levy of
taxes based on the 2014 assessment roll in a special assessing unit.

2013-S6475 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6475

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 28, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- 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  allowing
  certain  special  assessing  units  other  than cities to adjust their
  current base proportions

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 1803-a of the real property tax
law is amended by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows:
  (Z) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (C) OF  THIS  SUBDIVI-
SION TO THE CONTRARY, IN A SPECIAL ASSESSING UNIT THAT IS NOT A CITY AND
FOR  CURRENT  BASE  PROPORTIONS  TO BE DETERMINED BY TAXES BASED ON SUCH
SPECIAL ASSESSING UNIT'S TWO  THOUSAND  FOURTEEN  ASSESSMENT  ROLL,  THE
CURRENT  BASE PROPORTION OF ANY CLASS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE ADJUSTED BASE
PROPORTION OR ADJUSTED PROPORTION,  WHICHEVER  IS  APPROPRIATE,  OF  THE
IMMEDIATELY  PRECEDING YEAR BY MORE THAN ONE PERCENT. WHERE THE COMPUTA-
TION PERFORMED PURSUANT TO  PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  WOULD
OTHERWISE PRODUCE SUCH RESULT, THE CURRENT BASE PROPORTION OF SUCH CLASS
OR  CLASSES SHALL BE LIMITED TO SUCH ONE PERCENT INCREASE AND THE LEGIS-
LATIVE BODY OF SUCH SPECIAL ASSESSING UNIT SHALL ALTER THE CURRENT  BASE
PROPORTION  OF  ANY  OR  ALL  REMAINING  CLASSES  SO THAT THE SUM OF THE
CURRENT BASE PROPORTIONS EQUALS ONE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  the
levy  of  taxes based on the 2014 assessment roll in a special assessing
unit that is not a city.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13692-01-4

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