Senate Bill S3194

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs 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-S3194 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3450
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S1676
2021-2022: S1779
2023-2024: S1938, A6429

2025-S3194 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption; includes more recent hostilities in the definition of "period of war".

2025-S3194 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3194 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3194
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. SKOUFIS, ADDABBO, ASHBY, HELMING, MATTERA, O'MARA,
   PERSAUD, STEC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to
   be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili-
   tary Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property tax law, in relation to defining
   "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
 property  tax  law,  as  amended  by chapter 606 of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) "Period of war" means the Spanish-American war; the Mexican border
 period; World War I; World War II; the hostilities, known as the  Korean
 war,  which  commenced  June  twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred fifty and
 terminated on January thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  fifty-five;  the
 hostilities,  known  as the Vietnam war, which commenced November first,
 nineteen hundred fifty-five and  terminated  on  May  seventh,  nineteen
 hundred  seventy-five;  [and] the hostilities, known as the Persian Gulf
 conflict, which commenced August second, nineteen hundred ninety[.]; THE
 HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNITED  STATES
 IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM FROM SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE
 THROUGH THE END OF SUCH HOSTILITIES; AND THE HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN
 BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES IN NATO RELATED COMBAT THEA-
 TERS  IN SOMALIA FROM AUGUST, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO THROUGH MARCH,
 NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR, BOSNIA IN DECEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE-
 TY-FIVE THROUGH NOVEMBER, TWO THOUSAND FOUR AND KOSOVO IN  APRIL,  NINE-
 TEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE THROUGH JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06664-01-5

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