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History
- Print number 149a
- Amend and recommit to aging
- Referred to aging
- Referred to aging
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Relates to notice and filing of application for a real property tax exemption for senior citizens
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Jeffrey Dinowitz
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BILL NUMBER:S149A
Title of bill
An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to a notice of exemption for senior citizens
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill would require municipalities where real property tax exemptions may exist to notify eligible senior citizens of the tax exemptions they may be eligible to receive.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. Amends the Real Property Tax Law, Section 467 (4). Requires a second copy of the exemption notice to be sent thirty days before the filing deadline.
Section 2. Amends the Real Property Tax Law, Section 467 (5-b). Allows a municipality to accept applications for exemption later than such municipality's statutory deadline.
Section 3. Effective Date
Existing law
Title 2 - Private Housing; Section 467, Persons sixty-five years of age and over; Subdivision 4, requires only one notice and Subdivision 5b pertains to a county with population of one million or more.
Justification
New York State offers a wide variety of programs in an effort to keep senior citizens in their homes and out of institutional care. In an effort to boost utilization of these programs, this bill would require municipalities to send a second notice, in addition to the notice already mandated that is sent with, or on, senior citizens tax bill. The second notification will be sent thirty days prior to the filing deadline for the tax exemptions.
Prior legislative history
2013: S.149 - Referred to Aging/A.451 - Referred to Aging 2012: S.1754-A - Notice of Committee Consideration Requested, Committee Discharged and Committed to Rules/A.541 - Held for Consideration in Ways & Means 2011: S.1754-A - Notice of Committee Consideration Requested, Committee Discharged and Committed to Housing, Construction & Community Development/A.541 - Reported, Referred to Ways & Means 2009-10: A.5640A - Referred to Ways and Means 2007-08: A.9940 - Referred to Social Services
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately, provided that section two of this act shall apply to the 2013-2014 tax assessment rolls if an application for exemption is filed within 60 days of such effective date.
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