Bill Text: NY A02828 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides relief for senior citizens through the STAR program, setting the base figure for the exemption for the 2008-2009 school year at seventy-five thousand eight hundred dollars for eligible senior citizens, and the base figure for the basic Star exemption at thirty thousand dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to real property taxation [A02828 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02828-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2828
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 20, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Real Property Taxation
       AN  ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to enhancing the
         tax relief for senior citizens through the school tax relief program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 425 of the real
    2  property tax law, as amended by section 1 of part D-1 of chapter  57  of
    3  the  laws of 2007, clause (A) of subparagraph (vi) as further amended by
    4  subdivision (b) of section 1 of part W of chapter  56  of  the  laws  of
    5  2010, is amended to read as follows:
    6    (b)  Base  figure.  [Subject to the adjustments prescribed below, the]
    7  THE base figure for the exemption shall be as follows:
    8    (i) [For the nineteen hundred ninety-eight--ninety-nine  school  year,
    9  the  base  figure  shall  be  fifty thousand dollars for eligible senior
   10  citizens; no exemption shall be allowed for other persons.
   11    (ii) For the nineteen hundred ninety-nine--two thousand  school  year,
   12  the  base  figure  shall  be  fifty thousand dollars for eligible senior
   13  citizens, and ten thousand dollars for other eligible persons.
   14    (iii) For the two thousand--two thousand one  school  year,  the  base
   15  figure shall be fifty thousand dollars for eligible senior citizens, and
   16  twenty thousand dollars for other eligible persons.
   17    (iv)  For  the  two thousand one--two thousand two school year through
   18  the two thousand five--two thousand six school year, inclusive, the base
   19  figure shall be fifty thousand dollars for eligible senior citizens, and
   20  thirty thousand dollars for other eligible persons.
   21    (v)] For the [two thousand six--two thousand seven school year through
   22  the] two thousand eight--two thousand nine school year, [inclusive,] the
   23  base figure for the enhanced STAR exemption shall be [fifty-six]  SEVEN-
   24  TY-FIVE  thousand  eight  hundred  dollars,  and the base figure for the
   25  basic STAR exemption shall be thirty thousand dollars.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    [(vi)] (II) For the two thousand nine--two thousand  ten  school  year
    2  and thereafter:
    3    (A)  The  base  figure for the enhanced STAR exemption shall equal the
    4  prior year's base figure multiplied by the percentage  increase  in  the
    5  consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W)
    6  published  by  the  United  States  department of labor, bureau of labor
    7  statistics, for the third quarter of the  calendar  year  preceding  the
    8  applicable  school  year,  as compared to the third quarter of the prior
    9  calendar year. If a base figure as so determined is not exactly equal to
   10  a multiple of one hundred dollars, it shall be rounded  to  the  nearest
   11  multiple  of  one hundred dollars. It shall be the responsibility of the
   12  commissioner to annually determine such base figures.
   13    (B) The base figure for the basic STAR exemption shall be thirty thou-
   14  sand dollars.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
   16  paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 2 of section 425 of the real property tax
   17  law as amended by section one of  this  act  shall  apply  to  exemption
   18  applications for the 2015-2016 school year and thereafter.
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