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- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.320
- Referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
- Referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
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Grants municipalities the authority to provide real property tax exemptions for certain cold war veterans
In Assembly Committee · Real Property Taxation · Sponsor Steven Englebright
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5279
Title of bill
An act to amend the real property tax law, in relation to granting municipalities the authority to provide real property tax exemptions for certain cold war veterans
Purpose
To allow municipalities to include military members who served under the Federal Reserve Forces Act of 1955 in the definition of "Cold War Veteran" for the purposes of real property tax exemptions.
Summary of provisions
This bill would add a new subdivision to section 458-b of the real property tax law to give counties, cities, towns and villages the authority to adopt a local law granting those former military members that served under the Federal Reserve Forces Act of 1955 access to real property tax exemptions that the locality has in place for veterans.
Justification
As it stands now, the brave men and women who answered the call to serve their country as reservists under the Federal Reserve Forces Act of 1955 do not fall under the definition of Cold War Veteran, and are thus denied various real property tax exemptions. This legislation is necessary to give municipalities the power to rectify this inequality.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None for the State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately and apply to assessment rolls on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after the second day of January next succeeding the date on which this act shall have become law.
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