NY State Senate Bill 2025-S5192

Senate Bill S5192

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Extends the provisions authorizing the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax

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2025-S5192 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:: Taxation
Laws Affected:: Amd §2, Chap 504 of 2016

2025-S5192 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends the provisions authorizing the town of Greenburgh and specified villages in the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant to adopt a local law to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax.

2025-S5192 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5192

SPONSOR: STEWART-COUSINS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend chapter 504 of the laws of 2016, amending the tax law
relating to authorizing the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to
impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax for hotels not located in a village;
authorizing specified villages in the towns of Greenburgh and Mount
Pleasant to adopt local laws to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax in
such villages, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to extend the authorization of the town of
Greenburgh; the villages of Tarrytown, Irvington, Ardsley, Elmsford,
Dobbs Ferry, and Hastings-on-Hudson, located within the town of Green-
burgh; and the village of Sleepy Hollow, located within the town of
Mount Pleasant, to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax of no greater than
three percent until September 1, 2027.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill amends the tax law to extend the expiration date
of the authorization for the town of Greenburgh; the villages of Tarry-
town, Irvington, Ardsley, Elmsford, Dobbs Ferry, and Hastings-on-Hudson,
located within the town of Greenburgh; and the village of Sleepy Hollow,
located within the town of Mount Pleasant, to impose a hotel/motel occu-
pancy tax until September 1, 2027.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Municipalities need additional non-property tax sources of revenue to
fund the basic services to keep their communities safe and properly
serviced. This legislation will assist the town of Greenburgh; the
villages of Tarrytown, Irvington, Ardsley, Elmsford, Dobbs Ferry, and
Hastings-on-Hudson, located within the town of Greenburgh; and the
village of Sleepy Sleepy Hollow, located within the town of Mount Pleas-
ant, in funding necessary services.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2022 - S8413 (Stewart-Cousins);Chapter 415

2019 - S3404 (Stewart-Cousins);Chapter 189

2016 - S6872 (Stewart-Cousins);Chapter 504

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S5192 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5192
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
   and Government Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend chapter 504 of the laws of 2016, amending the tax law
   relating to authorizing the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to
   impose a hotel/motel  occupancy  tax  for  hotels  not  located  in  a
   village; authorizing specified villages in the towns of Greenburgh and
   Mount  Pleasant  to adopt local laws to impose a hotel/motel occupancy
   tax in such villages, in relation to extending the effectiveness ther-
   eof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 2 of chapter 504 of the laws of 2016, amending the
 tax law relating to authorizing the town of Greenburgh to adopt a  local
 law  to  impose  a hotel/motel occupancy tax for hotels not located in a
 village; authorizing specified villages in the towns of  Greenburgh  and
 Mount Pleasant to adopt local laws to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax
 in  such  villages,  as  amended  by chapter 415 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read as follows:
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall expire  and  be
 deemed repealed September 1, [2025] 2027.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08761-01-5

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