Bill Text: NY A03806 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts a homeowner from any tax increases when installing a solar energy system on their home.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to real property taxation [A03806 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A03806-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3806 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, M. G. MILLER, STIRPE, RIVERA, FAHY, RAIA, CROUCH, COOK, THIELE, BRABENEC, ARROYO, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, MAGEE, WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to exempting a homeowner from tax increases when installing a solar energy system on certain homes on or after January 1, 2020 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 487 of the real property tax law, 2 as amended by chapter 344 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. The exemption granted pursuant to this section shall only be appli- 5 cable to solar or wind energy systems or farm waste energy systems which 6 are (a) existing or constructed prior to July first, nineteen hundred 7 eighty-eight or (b) constructed subsequent to January first, nineteen 8 hundred ninety-one and prior to January first, two thousand twenty-five 9 or (c) solar energy systems constructed on one, two, three or four fami- 10 ly homes on or after January first, two thousand twenty. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05011-01-7