Senate Bill S6147

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to veterans' exemptions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S6147 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Real Property Tax Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §458-a, RPT L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S1045
2017-2018: S1269

2013-S6147 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that such exemption shall be effective retroactively to the prior fiscal year, but not beyond one year; also provides that if such exemption is granted it shall be prorated to the date upon which the veteran filed the application.

2013-S6147 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S6147 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6147

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 8, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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 certain veter-
  ans' exemptions

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1, and subdivisions 3 and 3-a
of section 458-a of the real property tax law, paragraph (a) of subdivi-
sion 1 as amended by chapter 179 of the laws of 2006, subdivision  3  as
amended  by  chapter  646  of the laws of 2004 and as further amended by
paragraph (b) of section 1 of part W of chapter 56 of the laws of  2010,
subdivision 3-a as added by chapter 531 of the laws of 2006, are amended
to read as follows:
  (a) "Period of war" means the Spanish-American war; the Mexican border
period;  World War I; World War II; the hostilities, known as the Korean
war, which commenced June twenty-seventh,  nineteen  hundred  fifty  and
terminated  on  January  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred fifty-five; the
hostilities, known as the Vietnam war, which commenced February  twenty-
eighth,  nineteen hundred sixty-one and terminated on May seventh, nine-
teen hundred seventy-five; [and] the hostilities, known as  the  Persian
Gulf   conflict,   which   commenced  August  second,  nineteen  hundred
ninety[.]; THE HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE
UNITED STATES IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM  FROM  SEPTEMBER  ELEVENTH,
TWO  THOUSAND  ONE  THROUGH THE END OF SUCH HOSTILITIES; AND THE HOSTIL-
ITIES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  IN
NATO  RELATED  COMBAT  THEATERS IN SOMALIA FROM AUGUST, NINETEEN HUNDRED
NINETY-TWO THROUGH MARCH, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR, BOSNIA IN DECEM-
BER, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE THROUGH NOVEMBER,  TWO  THOUSAND  FOUR
AND KOSOVO IN APRIL, NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE THROUGH JUNE, NINETEEN
HUNDRED NINETY-NINE.
  3.  Application for exemption must be made by the owner, or all of the
owners, of the property on a form prescribed by  the  commissioner.  The

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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