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A2218Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS3404

Extend Greenburgh Hotel Tax

Official title

“Extends the provisions authorizing the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax”

Sponsor Thomas AbinantiAD-92Affects Finance
Status
Signed by Governor
Impact
3/10
Low
Outcome
Signed into law

Bill progress

Signed into law

What's happening

This bill extends the authority for certain towns and villages in Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax until 2022.

Why it matters

  1. Continued Local Revenue Source. By extending the authority to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax, affected towns and villages can maintain a dedicated revenue stream, often used for local services, infrastructure, or tourism promotion, which could otherwise face budget gaps if the tax expired.

  2. Impact on Hotel and Visitor Costs. The extension means that guests staying in hotels and motels in these areas will continue paying the occupancy tax, which can influence the affordability of local accommodations and potentially affect tourism or business travel decisions.

  3. Local Control and Flexibility. The bill preserves the ability of local governments in Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant to decide if and how to impose the tax, supporting local autonomy in fiscal matters rather than imposing uniform state mandates.

  4. Temporary Nature Invites Ongoing Review. The extension to 2022, rather than making the tax permanent, ensures that the effectiveness and impact of the tax will be reassessed periodically, allowing stakeholders to revisit its necessity or adjust terms in response to changing local needs or economic conditions.

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Who cares

  • Town of Greenburgh officials

    The bill would extend through September 1, 2022, the town’s authority to adopt a hotel/motel occupancy tax for hotels outside villages.

  • Officials in specified villages in Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant

    The bill would extend their authority to adopt local hotel/motel occupancy taxes from September 1, 2019, to September 1, 2022.

  • Hotel and motel operators in the covered areas

    The extension would keep their properties subject to locally adopted occupancy taxes under this authorization for three additional years.

  • Hotel and motel guests in the covered areas

    They could continue to face occupancy taxes adopted under the extended local taxing authority.

Headline styles

Extend Greenburgh Hotel Tax

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Thomas Abinanti

Assembly Member · Assembly District 92

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Signed chap.189
  2. Delivered to governor
  3. Returned to assembly
  4. Passed senateVote 53–9
  5. Home rule request
  6. 3rd reading cal.722
  7. Substituted for S3404
  8. Referred to finance
  9. Delivered to senate
  10. Passed assembly
  11. Home rule request
  12. Home rule request
Show 11 earlier actions
  1. Home rule request
  2. Home rule request
  3. Home rule request
  4. Home rule request
  5. Home rule request
  6. Home rule request
  7. Advanced to third reading cal.330
  8. Reported
  9. Print number 2218a
  10. Amend (t) and recommit to ways and means
  11. Referred to ways and means

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.

S3404Senate

Extend Greenburgh Hotel Tax

Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

2218--A

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 22, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend chapter 504 of the laws of 2016, amending the tax law relating to authorizing the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax for hotels not located in a village; authorizing specified villages in the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant to adopt local laws to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax in such villages, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 2 of chapter 504 of the laws of 2016, amending the tax law relating to authorizing the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax for hotels not located in a village; authorizing specified villages in the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant to adopt local laws to impose a hotel/motel occupancy tax in such villages, is amended to read as follows:

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall expire and be deemed repealed September 1, [2019] 2022.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD03484-03-9

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