Bill Text: NY S01150 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits other qualifying members of a household to qualify the household for the disability rent increase exemption when they are not the head of household.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO AGING [S01150 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01150-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1150

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law,  in  relation  to  permitting
          other  qualifying members of a household to qualify for the disability
          rent increase exemption

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs b and g of subdivision 1 of section 467-b of the
     2  real property tax law, paragraph b as amended by chapter 188 of the laws
     3  of 2005 and paragraph g as added by chapter 360 of the laws of 2018, are
     4  amended and a new paragraph h is added to read as follows:
     5    b.  "Head  of the household" means a person (i) who is sixty-two years
     6  of age or older, [or] (ii) who qualifies as a person with  a  disability
     7  pursuant  to subdivision five of this section, or (iii) who is the rela-
     8  tive or legal guardian of a qualifying member of his or  her  household,
     9  and is entitled to the possession or to the use or occupancy of a dwell-
    10  ing unit;
    11    g.  "Qualifying  member of the household" means a person who qualifies
    12  as a person with a disability  pursuant  to  subdivision  five  of  this
    13  section,  who  is  not  the  head  of the household, and who permanently
    14  resides in the dwelling unit.
    15    h. "Relative" means with respect to a qualifying member of the  house-
    16  hold,  (i)  a  spouse,  domestic  partner, parent, grandparent, sibling,
    17  child, stepchild or stepparent of such person or (ii) any individual who
    18  is the direct descendant of the grandparents of such person.
    19    i. "Supervising agency" shall mean the appropriate rent control agency
    20  or administrative agency designated to administer the tax abatement  for
    21  rent-controlled  and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens
    22  or persons with disabilities pursuant to a  local  law,  resolution,  or
    23  ordinance passed pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
    24    § 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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