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                                  3330--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee  on Real Property Taxation -- recommitted to the Committee on Real
   Property Taxation in accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
   reported  and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT relating to establishing the real  property  tax  exemption  task
   force,  and  providing  for  its powers and duties; and repealing such
   provisions of law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Real  property  tax exemption task force. There is hereby
 established within the department of taxation and finance a real proper-
 ty tax exemption task force. The purpose of the task force shall  be  to
 study  and  prepare  a report which shall include, but not be limited to
 the following:
   (a) the types and classifications of New York real properties that can
 and have been granted tax exemptions;
   (b) the number of each type and classification of real property grant-
 ed a partial exemption and the number granted a full exemption  and  the
 total value of each;
   (c)  the process by which each type and classification has been or can
 be granted a tax exemption;
   (d) the types and classifications of real property, if  any,  required
 by federal law to be given a tax exemption;
   (e)  the number of real properties that have been given tax exemptions
 by industrial development agencies and the  total  value  of  these  tax
 exemptions; and
   (f)  recommendations  as  to  whether  the  types  and classifications
 permitting such tax exemptions should be continued or reformed.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05110-03-0
              

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   § 2. The real property tax exemption task force  shall  consist  of  a
 total  of  seven members and shall include: the commissioner of taxation
 and finance or his or her designee; the comptroller or his or her desig-
 nee; the attorney general or his or her designee; one  person  appointed
 by  the  temporary  president of the senate; one person appointed by the
 minority leader of the senate; one person appointed by  the  speaker  of
 the  assembly;  and  one  person appointed by the minority leader of the
 assembly. All appointees to the real property tax exemption  task  force
 shall be made no later than thirty days after the effective date of this
 act. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority.
   §  3.  The members of the real property tax exemption task force shall
 serve without compensation, except that members shall be  allowed  their
 necessary  and  actual  expenses  incurred  in  the performance of their
 duties under this act.
   § 4. The department of taxation and finance  shall  provide  the  real
 property  tax exemption task force with such facilities, assistance, and
 data as will enable such task force to carry out its powers and duties.
   § 5. The real property tax exemption task force shall issue  a  report
 of  its  findings and recommendations to the legislature within one year
 of its establishment.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed two years after such effective date, or upon delivery of
 the  report required by section five of this act, whichever comes first;
 provided that the real property tax exemption task  force  shall  notify
 the  legislative  bill  drafting  commission upon delivery of the report
 required by section five of this act in order that  the  commission  may
 maintain  an accurate and timely effective database of the official text
 of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating  the
 provisions  of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the
 public officers law.