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                                   10395
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
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 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax exemptions
   for persons with disabilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (b) and the closing paragraph of subdivision 2 of
 section 459-c of the real property tax law, as amended by chapter 265 of
 the laws of 2013, are amended to read as follows:
   (b)  a  person  with  a disability is one who has a physical or mental
 impairment, not due to current use of alcohol or illegal drug use, which
 substantially limits such person's ability to  engage  in  one  or  more
 major  life activities, such as caring for one's self, performing manual
 tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning and work-
 ing, and who (i) is certified  to  receive  social  security  disability
 insurance  (SSDI)  or  supplemental security income (SSI) benefits under
 the federal Social Security Act, or (ii) is certified to  receive  Rail-
 road  Retirement  Disability benefits under the federal railroad Retire-
 ment Act, or (iii) has received a certificate from the state  commission
 for  the  blind  stating  that  such person is legally blind, or (iv) is
 certified to receive a United States Postal Service disability  pension,
 or  (v)  is  certified to receive a United States department of veterans
 affairs disability pension pursuant to 38  U.S.C.  §1521,  OR  (VI)  HAS
 RECEIVED  AN  ORDER  FROM  THE  CHAIR OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION BOARD
 PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWO OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW  DETERMINING AN
 AWARD FOR COMPENSATION FOR PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY, AS SUCH  TERM  IS
 DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE OF SECTION FIFTEEN OF THE WORKERS' COMPEN-
 SATION LAW, OR OF PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY, AS SUCH TERM IS  DEFINED
 IN SUBDIVISION THREE OF SUCH SECTION FIFTEEN.
   An  award  letter from the Social Security Administration or the Rail-
 road Retirement Board, or a certificate from the  state  commission  for
 the  blind, or an award letter from the United States Postal Service, or
 an award letter from the United States department of  veterans  affairs,
 OR  AN ORDER OF DETERMINATION OF AN AWARD FOR COMPENSATION FOR PERMANENT
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD14551-01-2
 A. 10395                            2
 
 TOTAL DISABILITY OR OF PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY ISSUED BY THE  WORK-
 ERS' COMPENSATION BOARD shall be submitted as proof of disability.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.