Bill Text: NY S01779 | 2021-2022 | 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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S01779 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01779-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1779

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 15, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  BIAGGI,  BOYLE, PERSAUD, SAVINO -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military 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.
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