What's happening
This bill allows towns to grant property tax exemptions to certain reserve veterans under the alternative veteran exemption.
Why it matters
Expands local authority. The bill specifically empowers towns (in addition to counties, cities, villages, and school districts) to decide whether to grant property tax exemptions to reserve veterans, giving more local governments the option to support veterans in their communities.
Targets overlooked veterans. By including reserve veterans who served under a specific 1970 executive order (Operation Graphic Hand), the bill recognizes a group that may have previously been excluded from property tax relief, addressing a gap in veteran benefits.
Conditional on other requirements. The exemption isn’t automatic; eligible reserve veterans must have been honorably discharged and meet all other qualifications outlined in the existing law, ensuring the benefit is targeted to those who meet established service and conduct criteria.
Immediate impact on future taxes. The act takes effect immediately, applying to tax assessments made after the next taxable status date, which means eligible veterans could see tax relief relatively soon after the bill becomes law.
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Include Reserve Veterans in Exemption
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Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Substituted by S5411
- Advanced to third reading cal.457
- Reported
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to veterans' affairs
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Include Reserve Vets in Exemption
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Thomas Croci
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7001
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 29, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER, LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to allowing towns to adopt a local law to include reserve veterans for the veteran alternative exemption
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 458-a of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 476 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
10. A county, city, town, village or school district may adopt a local law or resolution to include those military personnel who served in the Reserve component of the United States Armed Forces that were deemed on active duty under Executive Order 11519 signed March twenty-third, nineteen hundred seventy, 35 Federal Register 5003, dated March twentyfourth, nineteen hundred seventy and later designated by the United States Department of Defense as Operation Graphic Hand, if such member was discharged or released therefrom under honorable conditions, provided that such veteran meets all other qualifications of this section.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall 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 a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10802-01-7
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