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
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                                          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
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