NY State Senate Bill 2017-S745

Senate Bill S745

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to state aid for certain cities, towns, villages or fire districts adversely affected by a concentration of tax exempt property

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Jan 03, 2018	referred to local government
May 08, 2017	committee discharged and committed to local government
Jan 04, 2017	referred to investigations and government operations

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2017-S745 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A732
Current Committee:: Senate Local Government
Law Section:: Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:: Add §532-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: A790
2011-2012: A425
2013-2014: S4605, A1079
2015-2016: S1821, A1026
2019-2020: A2089
2021-2022: A5219
2023-2024: A4303

2017-S745 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to state aid for certain cities, towns, villages or fire districts adversely affected by a concentration of tax exempt property.

2017-S745 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S745

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to state aid
for certain towns adversely affected by a concentration of tax exempt
property

 PURPOSE :

This bill creates a new category of state aid for certain towns based
on the amount of tax exempt property in their jurisdiction.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1 amends the Real Property Tax Law by adding a new Section
532-a providing that for any city, town, village, or fire district to
be eligible for a new category of state aid at least 35 percent of the
real property in the city, town, village, or fire district, by value,
must be exempt from taxation. The funds available to assist eligible
cities, towns, villages, or fire districts are allocated based on a
formula. Fifty percent of the distribution is based on the town's
population. The remaining 50 percent is based on the amount of tax
exempt property in the town.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Real property taxes are the main way local governments are able to
raise revenue and provide necessary services to the residents of their
city, town, village, or fire district. When a large concentration,
over 35 percent by value, of the property in a city, town, village, or
fire district, is exempt from taxation, there is a significant portion
of land for which real property taxes cannot be collected to support
the services provided by the locality. This significantly reduces the
property tax base and limits the number of property owners that pay
taxes to support the town's services. This places an increased burden
on the taxpayers for support of a city's, town's, village's, or fire
district's services.

This bill will aid the taxpayers and the cities, towns, villages, and
fire districts, that have a significantly high amount of real property
that is exempt from taxation by allowing the state to appropriate and
distribute funds, based upon a formula, to the towns which have a
significantly high amount, over 35 percent by value, of real property
that is exempt from taxation.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015-2016: S.1821/ A.1026
2013-2014: S.4605/ A.1079

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

Subject to budgetary appropriation.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This bill shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assessment
rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring and
after the date on which this act shall have become a law.

2017-S745 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    745
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RITCHIE, AKSHAR, SERINO, SEWARD -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Investigations and Government Operations
 
 AN  ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to state aid for
   certain towns adversely affected by  a  concentration  of  tax  exempt
   property

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The real property tax  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 532-a to read as follows:
   §  532-A.  CERTAIN LANDS SUBJECT TO STATE PAYMENTS. IN ANY CITY, TOWN,
 VILLAGE OR FIRE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF TAX EXEMPT PROPER-
 TY REPRESENTS MORE THAN THIRTY-FIVE PERCENT,  BY  VALUE,  OF  THE  TOTAL
 AMOUNT  OF  PROPERTY  IN  SUCH CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE OR FIRE DISTRICT, THE
 STATE SHALL PAY A SUM, SUBJECT TO BUDGETARY APPROPRIATION, AS FOLLOWS:
   1. FIFTY PERCENT OF SUCH SUM SHALL BE  PAID  TO  EACH  ELIGIBLE  CITY,
 TOWN, VILLAGE OR FIRE DISTRICT IN PROPORTION TO SUCH ENTITY'S POPULATION
 RELATIVE TO THE POPULATION OF ALL SUCH ELIGIBLE ENTITIES; AND
   2.  FIFTY  PERCENT OF SUCH SUM SHALL BE PAID BASED ON THE VALUE OF TAX
 EXEMPT PROPERTY IN EACH ELIGIBLE CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE OR FIRE DISTRICT AS
 A PERCENTAGE OF THE VALUE OF ALL TAX EXEMPT PROPERTY IN ALL SUCH  ELIGI-
 BLE ENTITIES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
 ment  rolls  prepared  on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on
 and after the date on which this act shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02788-01-7

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