Bill Text: NY S00177 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides additional rent protection for senior citizens whose household income does not exceed $70,000 in cases where their rent is more than one-half of their income.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - PRINT NUMBER 177A [S00177 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00177-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         177--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  DIAZ,  AVELLA,  PERKINS -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging --
          recommitted to the Committee on Aging in accordance with  Senate  Rule
          6,  sec. 8 -- 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  adding  rent
          protection  for senior citizens whose household income does not exceed
          seventy thousand dollars in cases where their rent is more  than  one-
          half of their income
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 467-b of the real property tax law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. a.  Notwithstanding subdivisions two and three of this section, or
     4  any  other  provision  of  law  to  the contrary, and in addition to any
     5  existing senior citizen rent exemption, the governing body of any  city,
     6  town  or  village  is  hereby  authorized  and empowered to adopt, after
     7  public hearing, a local law, ordinance or resolution providing  for  the
     8  abatement of taxes of said municipal corporation imposed on real proper-
     9  ty  containing  a  dwelling unit as defined in this section by an amount
    10  not in excess of that portion of any  increase  in  maximum  rent  which
    11  causes  such  maximum  rent to exceed one-half of the combined income of
    12  all members of the household, where: (1) the head of the household is  a
    13  person  sixty-two  years  of  age or older; and (2) the household income
    14  does not exceed seventy thousand dollars per year.
    15    b. Any such local law, ordinance or resolution established pursuant to
    16  paragraph a of this subdivision, shall provide that for a dwelling  unit
    17  where  the head of the household qualifies as a person with a disability
    18  pursuant to subdivision five of this section, no tax abatement shall  be
    19  granted  if the combined income for all members of the household for the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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