Bill Text: NY S01317 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1317 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to offer real property tax credits to certain volunteers who live in one municipality but who serve in neighboring municipalities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-02 - referred to real property taxation [S01317 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01317-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         1317--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by  Sens.  GAUGHRAN,  BORRELLO,  BROOKS,  COMRIE,  HELMING,
          HINCHEY, JACKSON, JORDAN, KAPLAN, KENNEDY, THOMAS --  read  twice  and
          ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
          Local Government -- recommitted to the Committee on  Local  Government
          in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax  law,  in  relation  to  volunteer
          firefighter and ambulance credits

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The real property tax  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 466-l to read as follows:
     3    § 466-l. Extension of benefits. Any governing body of a city, village,
     4  town,  county,  or school district that has provided a real property tax
     5  credit to volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers serving
     6  the municipality in which they reside, notwithstanding any provision  of
     7  this  title  to  the  contrary, is hereby authorized to extend such real
     8  property tax credit to any volunteer firefighter or volunteer  ambulance
     9  worker  who  provides  such  volunteer  services  to a neighboring city,
    10  village, town, county, or school district.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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