Bill Text: NY S01819 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by and real property owned by senior citizens or persons with disabilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-30 - referred to aging [S01819 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01819-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1819--A
            Cal. No. 1058

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, CHU -- 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  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to tax abatement
          for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by  and  real
          property owned by senior citizens or persons with disabilities

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 3 of section 467-b of the
     2  real property tax law, paragraph a as amended by section 1 of part U  of
     3  chapter 55 of the laws of 2014 and paragraph b as amended by chapter 129
     4  of the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
     5    a.  for  a  dwelling  unit where the head of the household is a person
     6  sixty-two years of age or older, no tax abatement shall  be  granted  if
     7  the  combined  income of all members of the household for the income tax
     8  year immediately preceding the date of making application  exceeds  four
     9  thousand  dollars,  or such other sum not more than twenty-five thousand
    10  dollars beginning July first, two  thousand  five,  twenty-six  thousand
    11  dollars  beginning  July  first, two thousand six, twenty-seven thousand
    12  dollars beginning July first, two thousand seven, twenty-eight  thousand
    13  dollars  beginning  July first, two thousand eight, twenty-nine thousand
    14  dollars beginning July first, two  thousand  nine,  and  fifty  thousand
    15  dollars  beginning  July  first,  two  thousand fourteen, and fifty-five
    16  thousand dollars beginning July first, two thousand twenty-four, as  may
    17  be  provided  by the local law, ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant
    18  to this section, provided that when the head of  the  household  retires
    19  before  the  commencement of such income tax year and the date of filing
    20  the application, the income for such year may be adjusted  by  excluding

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04986-02-4

        S. 1819--A                          2

     1  salary  or earnings and projecting [his or her] such head of household's
     2  retirement income over the entire period of such year.
     3    b.  for a dwelling unit where the head of the household qualifies as a
     4  person with a disability pursuant to subdivision five of  this  section,
     5  no tax abatement shall be granted if the combined income for all members
     6  of  the household for the current income tax year exceeds fifty thousand
     7  dollars beginning July first,  two  thousand  fourteen,  and  fifty-five
     8  thousand  dollars beginning July first, two thousand twenty-four, as may
     9  be provided by the local law, ordinance or resolution  adopted  pursuant
    10  to this section.
    11    § 2. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 467
    12  of the real property tax law, as amended by section 2 of part K of chap-
    13  ter 59 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
    14    (i) if the income of the owner or the combined income of the owners of
    15  the property for the applicable income tax year exceeds the sum of three
    16  thousand dollars, or such other sum not less than three thousand dollars
    17  nor more than [fifty] fifty-five thousand dollars, as may be provided by
    18  the local law, ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to this section.
    19    §  3.  Subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section
    20  459-c of the real property tax law, as amended by section 8 of part K of
    21  chapter 59 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
    22    (i) if the income of the owner or the combined income of the owners of
    23  the property for the applicable income tax year exceeds the sum of three
    24  thousand dollars, or such other sum not less than three thousand dollars
    25  nor more than [fifty] fifty-five thousand dollars, as may be provided by
    26  the local law or resolution adopted pursuant to this section.
    27    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    28  the  amendments  to paragraphs a and b of subdivision 3 of section 467-b
    29  of the real property tax law made by section one of this act  shall  not
    30  affect  the  expiration of such paragraphs and shall be deemed to expire
    31  therewith.
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