Senate Bill S1559

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "Affordable NY act"

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Aging Committee


  • 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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2025-S1559 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Aging
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§425 & 1306-a, RPT L; amd §601, Tax L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4325
2023-2024: S4801

2025-S1559 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "Affordable NY act"; increases the STAR exemptions; adjusts personal income tax rates.

2025-S1559 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1559 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1559
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. PALUMBO, BORRELLO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, HELMING,
   OBERACKER, RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
   to be committed to the Committee on Aging
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to increasing the
   base figure for the STAR exemption (Part A); and to amend the tax law,
   in  relation to adjusting certain rates for the imposition of personal
   income tax (Part B)
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act enacts into law components of legislation relating
 to  the "Affordable NY act". Each component is wholly contained within a
 Part identified as Parts A  through  B.  The  effective  date  for  each
 particular provision contained within such Part is set forth in the last
 section  of  such  Part. Any provision in any section contained within a
 Part, including the effective date of the Part, which makes a  reference
 to a section "of this act", when used in connection with that particular
 component,  shall  be  deemed  to  mean  and  refer to the corresponding
 section of the Part in which it is found. Section three of this act sets
 forth the general effective date of this act.
 
                                  PART A
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  2  of
 section  425 of the real property tax law, as added by section 1 of part
 D-1 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2007, clause (A) as further amended  by
 subdivision  (b)  of  section  1  of part W of chapter 56 of the laws of
 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   (vi) For the two thousand nine--two  thousand  ten  school  year  [and
 thereafter]  THROUGH  THE TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE--TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 SIX SCHOOL YEAR:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04378-01-5
 S. 1559                             2
              

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