Bill Text: NY S03274 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the exclusion of uncollectible taxes from the limitation on real estate taxes in New York City.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CITIES [S03274 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03274-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3274
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 5, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the  exclusion
          of uncollectible taxes from the limitation on real estate taxes in New
          York city
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3-b of the general  municipal  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding three new subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 to read as follows:
     3    3.  The  amount  to be raised by tax on real estate in any fiscal year
     4  commencing on or after July first, two thousand nineteen by the city  of
     5  New  York  and  the  counties  contained  therein  for  city  and county
     6  purposes, in addition to providing for the interest on and the principal
     7  of all indebtedness described in subdivision one of this section,  shall
     8  only  include  an additional amount for a reserve for those taxes, which
     9  it estimates in each budget year in good faith will be uncollectible for
    10  the payment of such indebtedness, minus any amount collected during  the
    11  fiscal  year by the city of New York from prior levies including by real
    12  property tax lien sales.
    13    4. For purposes of this section, the term "uncollectible"  shall  mean
    14  an  estimate of the amount that taxpayers do not pay because they cannot
    15  pay or because they choose not to pay.
    16    5. The reserve which the city of New York and the  counties  contained
    17  therein estimates shall be uncollectible for the payment of such indebt-
    18  edness  shall  not include any abatement or exemption amounts including,
    19  but not limited to, those abatement  amounts  as  authorized  by:    (a)
    20  section  four  hundred  sixty-seven-a  of the real property tax law; (b)
    21  section four hundred sixty-seven-b of the real  property  tax  law;  (c)
    22  section  four  hundred  sixty-seven-c  of the real property tax law; (d)
    23  section four hundred sixty-seven-f of the real  property  tax  law;  (e)
    24  section  four  hundred  sixty-seven-h  of the real property tax law; (f)
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07441-01-9

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     1  section four hundred sixty-seven-i of the real  property  tax  law;  (g)
     2  section  four  hundred  eighty-nine  of  the  real property tax law; (h)
     3  section four hundred ninety-nine-b of the real  property  tax  law;  (i)
     4  section  sixty-five  of  chapter  twenty  of  the  laws  of two thousand
     5  fifteen, or any other statute authorizing the abatement or exemption  of
     6  real property taxes.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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