Senate Bill S9298

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the real property tax exemption for un-remarried spouses of volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers killed in the line of duty

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-S9298 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10235
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §466-a, RPT L

2023-S9298 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the real property tax exemption for un-remarried spouses of volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers killed in the line of duty to permit continuation of such exemption for volunteer members with service between two and five years.

2023-S9298 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9298 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9298
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 a real proper-
   ty tax exemption for un-remarried spouses of volunteer firefighters or
   volunteer ambulance workers killed in the line of duty

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of section 466-a of the real property tax
 law, as added by chapter 670 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   4.  Un-remarried  spouses of volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambu-
 lance workers killed in the line of duty. Any  local  law  or  ordinance
 adopted  pursuant  to this section may be separately amended, or a local
 law, ordinance or resolution may be separately adopted  to  continue  an
 exemption or reinstate a pre-existing exemption claimed under such stat-
 utes  by  an  enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company,
 fire department, or incorporated voluntary ambulance  service,  to  such
 deceased  enrolled member's un-remarried spouse if such member is killed
 in the line of duty; provided, however, that:
   (a) such un-remarried spouse is  certified  by  the  authority  having
 jurisdiction  for  the incorporated volunteer fire company, fire depart-
 ment or incorporated voluntary  ambulance  service  as  an  un-remarried
 spouse  of an enrolled member of such incorporated volunteer fire compa-
 ny, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service who  was
 killed in the line of duty; and
   (b)  such  deceased volunteer had been an enrolled member for at least
 [five years] THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF YEARS OF  SERVICE,  BETWEEN  TWO  AND
 FIVE YEARS, ESTABLISHED BY THE MUNICIPALITY UNDER THIS SECTION; and
   (c)  such deceased volunteer had been receiving the exemption prior to
 [his or her] THEIR death.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15456-01-4

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