Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Oct 21, 2013 |
signed chap.385 |
Oct 09, 2013 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 18, 2013 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.287 substituted for a165 |
May 30, 2013 |
referred to agriculture delivered to assembly passed senate |
Feb 28, 2013 |
advanced to third reading |
Feb 27, 2013 |
2nd report cal. |
Feb 12, 2013 |
1st report cal.75 |
Jan 09, 2013 |
referred to agriculture |
Senate Bill S1952
Signed By Governor2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C) 60th Senate District
2013-S1952 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-S1952 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1952 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to agricultural assessment values PURPOSE: This bill amends the agriculture and markets law in relation to agricultural assessments by reducing the cap on the amount of change that may occur in the value of the base agricultural assessment value from ten percent to two percent of the value of the preceding year. SUMMARY: Section one amends the agriculture and markets law, section 304-a (g) by reducing the cap in the amount of change in the base agricultural assessment value for any given year from ten percent to two percent of the base agricultural assessment value of the preceding year. Section two provides the effective date. JUSTIFICATION: Farmers have been seeing alarming increases in their property taxes for farmland because of increases in their farmland assessments or "agricultural assessments". New York established its agricultural assessment program to keep rising property assessments, particularly in high pressure development areas, from forcing farmers out of business and eroding acres of open, working green space from
2013-S1952 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1952 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, DeFRANCISCO, GALLIVAN, GRIFFO, MAZIARZ, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD, VALESKY, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to agricul- tural assessment values THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph g of subdivision 4 of section 304-a of the agri- culture and markets law, as added by chapter 68 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: g. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section to the contra- ry, in no event shall the change in the base agricultural assessment value for any given year exceed [ten] TWO percent of the base agricul- tural assessment value of the preceding year. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04924-01-3
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