Bill Text: NY A06429 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-05 - amend by restoring to original print 6429 [A06429 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06429-Introduced.html
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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-05 - amend by restoring to original print 6429 [A06429 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06429-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6429 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- 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 606 of the laws of 2021, 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 November first, 9 nineteen hundred fifty-five and terminated on May seventh, nineteen 10 hundred seventy-five; [and] the hostilities, known as the Persian Gulf 11 conflict, which commenced August second, nineteen hundred ninety[.]; the 12 hostilities participated in by the military forces of the United States 13 in the Global War on Terrorism from September eleventh, two thousand one 14 through the end of such hostilities; and the hostilities participated in 15 by the military forces of the United States in NATO related combat thea- 16 ters in Somalia from August, nineteen hundred ninety-two through March, 17 nineteen hundred ninety-four, Bosnia in December, nineteen hundred nine- 18 ty-five through November, two thousand four and Kosovo in April, nine- 19 teen hundred ninety-nine through June, nineteen hundred ninety-nine. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04718-01-3