Bill Text: NY A04937 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state pay taxes on the assessed value of properties of closed state prisons until such prison is reopened, used by another state agency, or is conveyed to a non-governmental entity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 19-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to real property taxation [A04937 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04937-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4937

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMPSON, MILLER, E. BROWN, MAHER, MORINELLO,
          DeSTEFANO, GRAY, SMULLEN, LEMONDES, FLOOD, ANGELINO, K. BROWN, PALMES-
          ANO, BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Proper-
          ty Taxation

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to requiring  the
          state  pay  taxes  on the assessed value of properties of closed state
          prisons

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  532  of  the real property tax law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
     3    (m) All lands owned by the state which were previously used as a state
     4  prison, including the improvements erected thereon by the state,  begin-
     5  ning once correctional operations have ceased at such prison, regardless
     6  of any state or contracted personnel assigned to maintenance of relative
     7  facility  grounds  or facility infrastructure including, but not limited
     8  to, buildings, heating systems, or communications technology, until  the
     9  state begins operations upon the land through a state agency or the land
    10  is sold to a non-governmental entity; provided, however, that where such
    11  lands  are  conveyed  to  a not-for-profit non-governmental entity, such
    12  entity shall enter into a payment in lieu of taxes with  the  respective
    13  local municipality in which the former prison is located.
    14    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    15  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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