Bill Text: NY A01382 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases, at local option, real property tax exemptions for combat veterans who are 100% permanently disabled.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-02 - print number 1382b [A01382 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01382-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1382--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, BRABENEC, B. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored
          by  -- M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Veterans' Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
          in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  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 real  property
          tax exemptions for certain disabled veterans
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 458-a of the real property tax law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b) and  (c)  of
     4  this  subdivision,  a  county,  city,  town,  village or school district
     5  acting by and through its governing body, may grant to a veteran, or the
     6  unmarried surviving spouse of such veteran, who served in a combat thea-
     7  tre or combat zone of operations, as documented by the award of a United
     8  States campaign ribbon or service medal, or the armed forces expedition-
     9  ary medal, navy expeditionary medal, marine corps  expeditionary  medal,
    10  or  global  war on terrorism expeditionary medal, and who is one hundred
    11  percent disabled as a result of military service, a one hundred  percent
    12  exemption  from  real  property  taxation.  The  local maximum exemption
    13  allowance adopted by a local law  pursuant  to  paragraph  (d)  of  this
    14  subdivision shall not apply such exemptions of one hundred percent disa-
    15  bled veterans.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
    17  ment rolls prepared on and after January 1, 2019.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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