Bill Text: NY S06017 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides eligibility for a real property tax exemption for current or retired military reservists based on participation in formal training activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S06017 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06017-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6017

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the  veterans'
          real property tax exemption with respect to members of the reserves

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 458-a of the  real  property  tax
     2  law,  as  amended  by section 83 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of
     3  2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    10. A county, city, town, village or school district may adopt a local
     5  law or resolution to include those military personnel who served in  the
     6  Reserve  component of the United States Armed Forces that were deemed on
     7  active duty under Executive Order 11519 signed March twenty-third, nine-
     8  teen hundred seventy, 35 Federal  Register  5003,  dated  March  twenty-
     9  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  seventy  and  later designated by the United
    10  States Department of Defense as Operation Graphic Hand, or  who  partic-
    11  ipated  in  formal  training  activities as part of their service in the
    12  reserve component, if such member (1) is an active member in good stand-
    13  ing or was discharged or released therefrom under honorable  conditions,
    14  or  (2)  has  a  qualifying  condition, as defined in section one of the
    15  veterans' services law, and has received  a  discharge  other  than  bad
    16  conduct  or  dishonorable from such service, or (3) is a discharged LGBT
    17  veteran, as defined in section one of the veterans'  services  law,  and
    18  has  received  a  discharge  other than bad conduct or dishonorable from
    19  such service, provided that such veteran meets all other  qualifications
    20  of this section.
    21    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that if section
    22  83 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022  shall  not  have  taken
    23  effect  on  or  before such date then section two of this act shall take
    24  effect on the same date and in the same manner as such  chapter  of  the
    25  laws of 2022, takes effect.

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