Bill Text: NY A05351 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Extends the mortgage recording tax for Chenango county; relates to the depositing of mortgage recording tax funds into the general fund of the county of Chenango.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - referred to ways and means [A05351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05351-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5351

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. ANGELINO, GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend chapter 376 of the laws of 2024  amending  the  tax  law
          relating to authorizing the county of Chenango to impose an additional
          mortgage  recording tax, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; and
          to amend the tax law,  in  relation  to  the  depositing  of  mortgage
          recording tax funds into the general fund of the county of Chenango

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2 of chapter 376 of the laws of 2024  amending  the
     2  tax  law  relating  to  authorizing  the county of Chenango to impose an
     3  additional mortgage recording tax, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  shall  it
     5  have  become  a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed December 31,
     6  [2025] 2027.
     7    § 2. Paragraphs (p) and (q) of subdivision 1 of section 261 of the tax
     8  law, paragraph (p) as amended by chapter 479 of the  laws  of  2022  and
     9  paragraph (q) as amended by chapter 365 of the laws of 2005, are amended
    10  and a new paragraph (r) is added to read as follows:
    11    (p)  with respect to the remaining counties of the state except Catta-
    12  raugus county which have not suspended the imposition of such additional
    13  tax pursuant to subdivision two of section two  hundred  fifty-three  of
    14  this  article,  to  the comptroller to be paid by [him or her] them into
    15  the general fund in the state  treasury  to  the  credit  of  the  state
    16  purposes  account;  provided  that  money  paid  to the comptroller with
    17  respect to any such remaining county  in  which  on  the  date  of  such
    18  payment any mass transportation, airport or aviation, municipal historic
    19  site, municipal park, community mental health and developmental disabil-
    20  ities facility, or sewage treatment capital project is being carried out
    21  by  a  municipality with state aid, or for which state aid will be paid,
    22  pursuant to the provisions of title one of chapter seven hundred  seven-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  teen  of  the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven, section 17.05 of the
     2  parks, recreation and historic preservation law, section  41.18  of  the
     3  mental hygiene law, or section 17-1903 of the environmental conservation
     4  law, shall be applied by [him or her] them to increase the amount of aid
     5  for  which  the  state  is  obligated in respect to such project on such
     6  date, provided that any such increase in state  aid  may  not,  together
     7  with any federal funds paid or to be paid on account of the cost of such
     8  project,  exceed  the  total  cost thereof, and where more than one such
     9  capital project is being carried out on such date  within  such  county,
    10  the  application  of  such  monies by the comptroller shall be pro-rated
    11  among such municipalities on the basis  of  the  respective  amounts  of
    12  state aid which are so obligated on such date; [and] (q) with respect to
    13  the county of Cattaraugus, to the comptroller to be paid by [him or her]
    14  them  into  the  general fund in the state treasury to the credit of the
    15  state purposes account for the construction of a county office  building
    16  and a county department of public works office building, or debt service
    17  thereon  being  carried  out  by the county of Cattaraugus up to but not
    18  exceeding the total cost for such  county  office  building  and  county
    19  department  of  public  works building, or debt service thereon less the
    20  amount of any state aid or federal funds paid or to be paid  on  account
    21  of  such project or debt service thereon[.]; and (r) with respect to the
    22  county of Chenango, to the county treasurer of such county  for  deposit
    23  into the general fund of the county of Chenango.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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