Bill Text: NY A03450 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-27 - referred to veterans' affairs [A03450 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03450-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3450

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Veterans' 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:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
     2  property tax law, as amended by chapter 606 of  the  laws  of  2021,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) "Period of war" means the Spanish-American war; the Mexican border
     5  period;  World War I; World War II; the hostilities, known as the Korean
     6  war, which commenced June twenty-seventh,  nineteen  hundred  fifty  and
     7  terminated  on  January  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred fifty-five; the
     8  hostilities, known as the Vietnam war, which commenced  November  first,
     9  nineteen  hundred  fifty-five  and  terminated  on May seventh, nineteen
    10  hundred seventy-five; [and] the hostilities, known as the  Persian  Gulf
    11  conflict, which commenced August second, nineteen hundred ninety[.]; the
    12  hostilities  participated in by the military forces of the United States
    13  in the Global War on Terrorism from September eleventh, two thousand one
    14  through the end of such hostilities; and the hostilities participated in
    15  by the military forces of the United States in NATO related combat thea-
    16  ters in Somalia from August, nineteen hundred ninety-two through  March,
    17  nineteen hundred ninety-four, Bosnia in December, nineteen hundred nine-
    18  ty-five  through  November, two thousand four and Kosovo in April, nine-
    19  teen hundred ninety-nine through June, nineteen hundred ninety-nine.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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