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A3221Assembly2019-2020 Session

Require Combining Veterans’ Tax Exemptions

Official title

“Relates to requiring that the alternative exemption to which each qualified owner is entitled shall be combined when such property is owned by more than one qualified owner”

Sponsor Felix OrtizAD-51+2 co-sponsorsAffects Local Government
Status
In Assembly Committee
Veterans' Affairs
Impact
5/10
Moderate
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Veterans' Affairs

What's happening

This bill requires combining veterans’ property tax exemptions when multiple eligible owners share a property.

Why it matters

  1. Statewide reach. Applies to jointly owned properties with multiple qualified owners under New York’s alternative veterans’ property tax exemption.

  2. Mandatory treatment. Changes combining each qualified owner’s exemption from optional to required, removing discretion over whether to combine them.

  3. Eligible owners. Covers veterans, their spouses and unremarried surviving spouses, allowing their individual exemptions to be combined on the same property.

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Who cares

  • Veterans who jointly own property

    They would be entitled to have their exemptions combined with those of other qualified owners.

  • Veterans’ spouses and unremarried surviving spouses

    They qualify as owners whose exemptions must be combined when sharing ownership with another qualified owner.

  • Local property tax assessors

    They would have to combine eligible co-owners’ exemptions rather than treating combination as optional.

Headline styles

Require Combining Veterans’ Tax Exemptions

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Felix Ortiz

Assembly Member · Assembly District 51

History

  1. Referred to veterans' affairs
  2. Referred to veterans' affairs

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

3221

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 29, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, LAVINE, SCHIMMINGER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON, COOK, CUSICK, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the alternate real property tax exemption for veterans

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

Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real property tax law, as amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:

(c) "Qualified owner" means a veteran, the spouse of a veteran or the unremarried surviving spouse of a veteran. Where property is owned by more than one qualified owner, the exemption to which each is entitled [may] shall be combined. Where a veteran is also the unremarried surviving spouse of a veteran, such person may also receive any exemption to which the deceased spouse was entitled.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

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

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD07455-01-9

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