STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3221
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ, LAVINE, SCHIMMINGER -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.  COLTON, COOK, CUSICK, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the  alternate
          real property tax exemption for veterans
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
     2  property tax law, as amended by chapter 100 of  the  laws  of  1988,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  "Qualified owner" means a veteran, the spouse of a veteran or the
     5  unremarried surviving spouse of a veteran. Where property  is  owned  by
     6  more  than  one qualified owner, the exemption to which each is entitled
     7  [may] shall be combined. Where a veteran is also the unremarried surviv-
     8  ing spouse of a veteran, such person may also receive any  exemption  to
     9  which the deceased spouse was entitled.
    10    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    11  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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