NY State Senate Bill 2013-S2236

Senate Bill S2236

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Extends real property partial tax exemptions for qualified veterans to include taxes for school purposes

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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
Jan 08, 2014	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
Jun 04, 2013	reported and committed to finance
Jan 15, 2013	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs

Votes

- Jun 4, 2013 - Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee Vote
  S2236
  
  11
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee Vote: Jun 4, 2013
      
      aye (11)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Avella
      
      Ball
      
      Carlucci
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gipson
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Grisanti
      
      Tkaczyk
      
      Zeldin
      
      nay (1)
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Larkin

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2013-S2236 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:: Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§458-a & 458, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S2195
2011-2012: S1995

2013-S2236 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends real property partial tax exemptions for qualified veterans to include taxes for school purposes.

2013-S2236 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S2236                REVISED 1/28/13

TITLE  OF BILL:   An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation
to partial property tax exemptions of school taxes for qualified  veter-
ans

PURPOSE:  To extend the current real property partial tax exemptions for
qualified veterans to include taxes for school purposes.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section  one  amends  Real  Property  Tax  Law section 458-a(2)(d)(i) to
include local school taxes within the current exemption for veterans.

Section two amends Real Property Tax Law section  458(1)(3)  to  include
local school taxes within the current exemption for veterans.

Section  three  provides that this act shall take effect on the first of
January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and
shall apply to all assessment rolls completed on and after such date.

EXISTING LAW:  Under current law, local governments have the  option  to
provide  veterans  with  an  exemption  from the general municipal taxes
imposed upon real property.

JUSTIFICATION:  According to the Center for  American  Progress,  nearly

one  in  seven  homeless adults were veterans in 2011. In the same year,
1.5 million veterans were estimated to have been at risk of homelessness
due-to poverty, lack of support networks, and dismal  living  conditions
in  overcrowded or substandard housing. Government at both the state and
federal level should do everything it can  to  change  this  by  helping
veterans get back on their feet when they return to civilian life.  This
bill  helps  veterans  stay in their homes by expanding the property tax
exemptions available to them.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2012: S.1995 -  Referred  to  Veterans,  Homeland  Security  &  Military
Affairs
2011: S.1995 - Reported to Finance
2009-10: S.2195 - Referred to Veterans, Homeland Security & Military
Affairs,  both  years 2008: S.3002 - 3rd Reading 2007: S.3002 - Referred
to Veterans, Homeland Security & Military Affairs

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:  None to the State

LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:  Unknown

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This act shall take effect on the first of January next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall  apply
to all assessment rolls completed on and after such date.

2013-S2236 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2236

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 15, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
  ty and Military Affairs

AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to partial  prop-
  erty tax exemptions of school taxes for qualified veterans

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

  Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  2  of
section  458-a  of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 525 of
the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
  (i) The exemption from taxation provided by this subdivision shall  be
applicable to county, city, town and village taxation, [but shall not be
applicable to] AND taxes levied for school purposes.
  S  2. Paragraph 3 of subdivision 1 of section 458 of the real property
tax law, as amended by chapter 733 of the laws of 1959,  is  amended  to
read as follows:
  (3)  If  the assessors are satisfied that the applicant is entitled to
any exemption, they shall make appropriate entries upon the  assessment-
roll  opposite  the  description of such property and subtract the total
amount of such exemption from the total amount assessed pursuant to  the
provisions  of  paragraph one of this subdivision. Such entries shall be
made and continued in each assessment of the property so long as  it  is
exempt  from taxation for any purpose. Such real property, to the extent
of the exemption entered by the assessors, shall be exempt  from  state,
county  and general municipal taxation, [but shall be taxable] AND TAXA-
TION for local school purposes. The provisions herein, relating  to  the
assessment and exemption of property purchased with eligible funds apply
and  shall  be enforced in each municipal corporation authorized to levy
taxes.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
ing  the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all
assessment rolls completed on and after such date.

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

                                                           LBD05252-01-3

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Martin J. Golden