Bill Text: NY A05941 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption; includes more recent hostilities in the definition of "period of war".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to veterans' affairs [A05941 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05941-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5941
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the real property  tax  law,  in  relation  to  defining
          "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
     2  property tax law, as amended by chapter 179 of  the  laws  of  2006,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) "Period of war" means the Spanish-American war; the Mexican border
     5  period;  World War I; World War II; the hostilities, known as the Korean
     6  war, which commenced June twenty-seventh,  nineteen  hundred  fifty  and
     7  terminated  on  January  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred fifty-five; the
     8  hostilities, known as the Vietnam war, which commenced February  twenty-
     9  eighth,  nineteen hundred sixty-one and terminated on May seventh, nine-
    10  teen hundred seventy-five; [and] the hostilities, known as  the  Persian
    11  Gulf   conflict,   which   commenced  August  second,  nineteen  hundred
    12  ninety[.]; the hostilities participated in by the military forces of the
    13  United States in the Global War on Terrorism  from  September  eleventh,
    14  two  thousand  one  through the end of such hostilities; and the hostil-
    15  ities participated in by the military forces of  the  United  States  in
    16  NATO  related  combat  theaters in Somalia from August, nineteen hundred
    17  ninety-two through March, nineteen hundred ninety-four, Bosnia in Decem-
    18  ber, nineteen hundred ninety-five through November,  two  thousand  four
    19  and Kosovo in April, nineteen hundred ninety-nine through June, nineteen
    20  hundred ninety-nine.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01138-03-9
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