Senate Bill S5779E

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a residential investment exemption in certain cities

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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-S5779 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5898
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §485-y, RPT L

2023-S5779 - Summary

Establishes a vacant residential investment exemption in cities with a population of not less than seven thousand fifty and not more than seven thousand sixty, determined in accordance with the two thousand twenty census.

2023-S5779 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5779 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5779
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- 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 establishing a
   residential investment exemption in certain cities
 
   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 485-x to read as follows:
   §  485-X.  RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT EXEMPTION; CERTAIN CITIES.
 1. CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO RESIDENTIAL REAL  PROPERTY  INITIATED
 ON  OR  AFTER  THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR IN THE
 CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF NOT LESS THAN SEVEN THOUSAND FIFTY  AND  NOT
 MORE  THAN  SEVEN  THOUSAND SIXTY, DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY CENSUS, MAY BE EXEMPT FROM CITY AND SCHOOL  TAXATION  AS
 PROVIDED  IN THIS SECTION. SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE DESIGNATED BY THE
 CITY IN WHICH IT IS LOCATED AS RESIDENTIAL VACANT LAND  ON  SUCH  CITY'S
 TAX ROLL PRIOR TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS.
   2.  (A)(I) SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE EXEMPT FOR A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN
 MONTHS OR UNTIL A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY IS ISSUED, WHICHEVER IS SOON-
 ER, ON ALL CITY AND SCHOOL TAXATION.
   (II) (A) UPON THE TERMINATION OF  THE  EXEMPTION  PROVIDED  FOR  UNDER
 SUBPARAGRAPH  (I)  OF THIS PARAGRAPH, SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE EXEMPT
 FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR TO THE EXTENT  OF  EIGHTY  PER  CENTUM  OF  THE
 ASSESSED  VALUE  THEREOF  AND  FOR  AN  ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF THREE YEARS
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE EXTENT OF SUCH EXEMPTION SHALL BE  DECREASED
 BY  TWENTY  PER  CENTUM EACH YEAR DURING SUCH ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF THREE
 YEARS  AND  SUCH  EXEMPTION  SHALL  BE  COMPUTED  WITH  RESPECT  TO  THE
 "EXEMPTION  BASE".  THE  EXEMPTION  BASE  SHALL BE THE ASSESSED VALUE AS
 DETERMINED BY THE ASSESSOR IN THE INITIAL YEAR OF SUCH FOUR-YEAR  PERIOD
 FOLLOWING  THE  TERMINATION OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED FOR UNDER SUBPARA-
 GRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09064-01-3
              

2023-S5779A - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5898
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §485-y, RPT L

2023-S5779A - Summary

Establishes a vacant residential investment exemption in cities with a population of not less than seven thousand fifty and not more than seven thousand sixty, determined in accordance with the two thousand twenty census.

2023-S5779A - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5779A - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5779--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on Local Government --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to establishing a
   residential investment exemption in certain cities
 
   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 485-x to read as follows:
   §  485-X.  RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT EXEMPTION; CERTAIN CITIES.
 1. CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO RESIDENTIAL REAL  PROPERTY  INITIATED
 ON  OR  AFTER  THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR IN THE
 CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF NOT LESS THAN SEVEN THOUSAND FIFTY  AND  NOT
 MORE  THAN  SEVEN  THOUSAND SIXTY, DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY CENSUS, MAY BE EXEMPT FROM CITY TAXATION AS PROVIDED  IN
 THIS  SECTION.  SUCH  REAL  PROPERTY  SHALL BE DESIGNATED BY THE CITY IN
 WHICH IT IS LOCATED AS RESIDENTIAL VACANT LAND ON SUCH CITY'S  TAX  ROLL
 PRIOR TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS.
   2.  (A)(I) SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE EXEMPT FOR A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN
 MONTHS OR UNTIL A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY IS ISSUED, WHICHEVER IS SOON-
 ER, ON ALL CITY TAXATION.
   (II) (A) UPON THE TERMINATION OF  THE  EXEMPTION  PROVIDED  FOR  UNDER
 SUBPARAGRAPH  (I)  OF THIS PARAGRAPH, SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE EXEMPT
 FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR TO THE EXTENT  OF  EIGHTY  PER  CENTUM  OF  THE
 ASSESSED  VALUE  THEREOF  AND  FOR  AN  ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF THREE YEARS
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE EXTENT OF SUCH EXEMPTION SHALL BE  DECREASED
 BY  TWENTY  PER  CENTUM EACH YEAR DURING SUCH ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF THREE
 YEARS  AND  SUCH  EXEMPTION  SHALL  BE  COMPUTED  WITH  RESPECT  TO  THE
 "EXEMPTION  BASE".  THE  EXEMPTION  BASE  SHALL BE THE ASSESSED VALUE AS
 DETERMINED BY THE ASSESSOR IN THE INITIAL YEAR OF SUCH FOUR-YEAR  PERIOD
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09064-03-3
              

2023-S5779B - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5898
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §485-y, RPT L

2023-S5779B - Summary

Establishes a vacant residential investment exemption in cities with a population of not less than seven thousand fifty and not more than seven thousand sixty, determined in accordance with the two thousand twenty census.

2023-S5779B - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5779B - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5779--B
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on Local Government --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted  to  said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to establishing a
   residential investment exemption in certain cities
 
   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 485-x to read as follows:
   § 485-X.  VACANT  RESIDENTIAL  REAL  PROPERTY  IMPROVEMENT  EXEMPTION;
 CERTAIN  CITIES.  1.  CONSTRUCTION  OF  IMPROVEMENTS TO RESIDENTIAL REAL
 PROPERTY, PROVIDED THAT SUCH REAL PROPERTY  WAS  VACANT  PRIOR  TO  SUCH
 CONSTRUCTION,  INITIATED ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 FOUR IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF NOT LESS THAN SEVEN  THOUSAND  FIFTY
 AND  NOT  MORE  THAN SEVEN THOUSAND SIXTY, DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY CENSUS, MAY BE  EXEMPT  FROM  CITY  TAXATION  AS
 PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION.
   2. (A)(I)  DURING THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD, SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE
 FULLY  EXEMPT  FROM  CITY TAXATION, UP TO A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS OR
 UNTIL A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY IS ISSUED, WHICHEVER IS SOONER, ON  ALL
 CITY TAXATION.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "CONSTRUCTION
 PERIOD"  SHALL  MEAN  THE PERIOD OF TIME BEGINNING ON THE DATE WHICH THE
 ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO VACANT RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY,
 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,  LAWFULLY  BEGINS  IN  GOOD
 FAITH AND ENDING ON THE DATE A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY HAS BEEN ISSUED.
   (II)  (A)  UPON  THE  TERMINATION  OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED FOR UNDER
 SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL  BE  EXEMPT
 FOR  A  PERIOD  OF  ONE  YEAR  TO THE EXTENT OF EIGHTY PER CENTUM OF THE
 ASSESSED VALUE THEREOF AND FOR AN  ADDITIONAL  PERIOD  OF  THREE  YEARS,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09064-05-3
              

2023-S5779C - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5898
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §485-y, RPT L

2023-S5779C - Summary

Establishes a vacant residential investment exemption in cities with a population of not less than seven thousand fifty and not more than seven thousand sixty, determined in accordance with the two thousand twenty census.

2023-S5779C - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5779C - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5779--C
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on Local Government --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted  to  said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
   recommitted  to  the  Committee on Local Government in accordance with
   Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to establishing a
   residential investment exemption in certain cities
 
   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 485-x to read as follows:
   §  485-X.  VACANT  RESIDENTIAL  REAL  PROPERTY  IMPROVEMENT EXEMPTION;
 CERTAIN CITIES. 1. CONSTRUCTION  OF  IMPROVEMENTS  TO  RESIDENTIAL  REAL
 PROPERTY,  PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH  REAL  PROPERTY WAS VACANT PRIOR TO SUCH
 CONSTRUCTION, INITIATED ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 FIVE  IN  A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF NOT LESS THAN SEVEN THOUSAND FIFTY
 AND NOT MORE THAN SEVEN THOUSAND SIXTY, DETERMINED  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH
 THE  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY  CENSUS,  MAY BE EXEMPT FROM CITY TAXATION AS
 PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION.
   2. (A)(I)  DURING THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD, SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE
 FULLY EXEMPT FROM CITY TAXATION, UP TO A PERIOD OF  EIGHTEEN  MONTHS  OR
 UNTIL  A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY IS ISSUED, WHICHEVER IS SOONER, ON ALL
 CITY TAXATION.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "CONSTRUCTION
 PERIOD" SHALL MEAN THE PERIOD OF TIME BEGINNING ON THE  DATE  WHICH  THE
 ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO VACANT RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY,
 PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF THIS SECTION, LAWFULLY BEGINS IN GOOD
 FAITH AND ENDING ON THE DATE A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY HAS BEEN ISSUED.
   (II) (A) UPON THE TERMINATION OF  THE  EXEMPTION  PROVIDED  FOR  UNDER
 SUBPARAGRAPH  (I)  OF THIS PARAGRAPH, SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE EXEMPT
 FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR TO THE EXTENT  OF  EIGHTY  PER  CENTUM  OF  THE
 ASSESSED  VALUE  THEREOF  AND  FOR  AN ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF THREE YEARS,
 
              

2023-S5779D - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5898
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §485-y, RPT L

2023-S5779D - Summary

Establishes a vacant residential investment exemption in cities with a population of not less than seven thousand fifty and not more than seven thousand sixty, determined in accordance with the two thousand twenty census.

2023-S5779D - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5779D - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5779--D
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on Local Government --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted  to  said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
   recommitted  to  the  Committee on Local Government in accordance with
   Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted  as  amended  and recommitted to said committee -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to establishing a
   residential investment exemption in certain cities
 
   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 485-y to read as follows:
   § 485-Y.  VACANT  RESIDENTIAL  REAL  PROPERTY  IMPROVEMENT  EXEMPTION;
 CERTAIN  CITIES.  1.  CONSTRUCTION  OF  IMPROVEMENTS TO RESIDENTIAL REAL
 PROPERTY, PROVIDED THAT SUCH REAL PROPERTY  WAS  VACANT  PRIOR  TO  SUCH
 CONSTRUCTION,  INITIATED ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 FIVE IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF NOT LESS THAN SEVEN  THOUSAND  FIFTY
 AND  NOT  MORE  THAN SEVEN THOUSAND SIXTY, DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY CENSUS, MAY BE  EXEMPT  FROM  CITY  TAXATION  AS
 PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION.
   2. (A)(I)  DURING THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD, SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE
 FULLY  EXEMPT  FROM  CITY TAXATION, UP TO A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS OR
 UNTIL A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY IS ISSUED, WHICHEVER IS SOONER, ON  ALL
 CITY TAXATION.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "CONSTRUCTION
 PERIOD"  SHALL  MEAN  THE PERIOD OF TIME BEGINNING ON THE DATE WHICH THE
 ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO VACANT RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09064-08-4
 S. 5779--D                          2
              

2023-S5779E (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5898
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Add §485-y, RPT L

2023-S5779E (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a vacant residential investment exemption in cities with a population of not less than seven thousand fifty and not more than seven thousand sixty, determined in accordance with the two thousand twenty census.

2023-S5779E (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5779E (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5779--E
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on Local Government --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted  to  said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
   recommitted  to  the  Committee on Local Government in accordance with
   Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted  as  amended  and recommitted to said committee -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to establishing a
   residential investment exemption in certain cities
 
   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 485-y to read as follows:
   §  485-Y.  VACANT  RESIDENTIAL  REAL  PROPERTY  IMPROVEMENT EXEMPTION;
 CERTAIN CITIES. 1. CONSTRUCTION  OF  IMPROVEMENTS  TO  RESIDENTIAL  REAL
 PROPERTY, PROVIDED THAT SUCH REAL PROPERTY WAS CONTINUOUSLY VACANT FOR A
 PERIOD  OF AT LEAST THREE YEARS PRIOR TO SUCH CONSTRUCTION, INITIATED ON
 OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE IN A CITY WITH A  POPU-
 LATION  OF  NOT  LESS  THAN SEVEN THOUSAND FIFTY AND NOT MORE THAN SEVEN
 THOUSAND SIXTY, DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY
 CENSUS, MAY BE EXEMPT FROM CITY TAXATION AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION.
   2. (A)(I)  DURING THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD, SUCH REAL PROPERTY SHALL BE
 FULLY  EXEMPT  FROM  CITY TAXATION, UP TO A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS OR
 UNTIL A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY IS ISSUED, WHICHEVER IS SOONER, ON  ALL
 CITY TAXATION.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "CONSTRUCTION
 PERIOD"  SHALL  MEAN  THE PERIOD OF TIME BEGINNING ON THE DATE WHICH THE
 ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO VACANT RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09064-10-4
              

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