Senate Bill S1244

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Increases the income thresholds for eligibility for the senior citizen and disabled person property tax exemptions

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  • 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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2019-S1244 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§467 & 459-c, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7803
2021-2022: S6523
2023-2024: S5948

2019-S1244 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the income thresholds for eligibility for the senior citizen and disabled person property tax exemptions.

2019-S1244 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1244 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1244
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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  the  senior
   citizen and disabled property owner exemption
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 467 of  the  real
 property tax law, as amended by chapter 261 of the laws of 1994, subpar-
 agraph 3 as added by chapter 402 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (b)  (1)  Any  local  law, ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to
 paragraph (a) of this subdivision may be amended, or a local law,  ordi-
 nance  or  resolution  may  be adopted, to provide an exemption so as to
 increase the maximum income eligibility level of such  municipal  corpo-
 ration  as provided in subdivision three of this section (represented in
 the hereinbelow schedule as M), to the extent provided in the  following
 schedule:
 
   ANNUAL INCOME                         PERCENTAGE ASSESSED VALUATION
                                         EXEMPT FROM TAXATION
 More than (M) but
      [less than (M+ $1,000)                  45 per centum
 (M+ $1,000 or more) but
      less than (M+ $2,000)                   40 per centum
 (M+ $2,000 or more) but]
      less than (M+ [$3,000] $10,000)         35 per centum
 [(M+ $3,000 or more) but
      less than (M+ $3,900)                   30 per centum
 (M+ $3,900 or more) but
      less than (M+ $4,800)                   25 per centum
 (M+ $4,800 or more) but

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

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