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A7291Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS5270

Tax State Land for Schools

Official title

“Provides that state lands within the Eastport-South Manor Central School District are subject to taxation for school purposes”

Sponsor Fred ThieleAD-1Affects Finance
Status
In Assembly Committee
Ways And Means
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Ways And Means

What's happening

This bill makes state-owned lands in the Eastport-South Manor Central School District subject to school taxation.

Why it matters

  1. May increase local school funding. By making state-owned lands taxable for school purposes, the Eastport-South Manor Central School District could receive additional revenue, potentially reducing the local tax burden on private property owners or supporting enhanced educational services.

  2. Shifts fiscal impact of state land ownership. Normally, state-owned lands are exempt from local school taxes; this change would mean the state must pay school taxes on these properties, redistributing the cost of supporting local schools more broadly across the state budget.

  3. Sets a precedent for other districts. Amending the tax status for state lands in this specific district could prompt similar requests from other school districts with significant state landholdings, impacting future state-local fiscal relations.

  4. Addresses local equity concerns. Residents and school officials may have viewed the previous exemption as unfair, since state lands do not contribute to the tax base despite using district resources. This bill aims to address those equity and fairness issues.

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Who cares

  • Eastport-South Manor Central School District

    The bill would replace the reference to Eastport Union Free School District with the central district, making state-owned lands within its Central Pine Barrens core preservation area subject to school taxation.

  • New York State

    State-owned lands covered by the updated district listing would be subject to taxation for school purposes.

  • Brookhaven and Southampton tax officials

    The bill would update the school district designation in the taxable state-land listing for these towns.

Headline styles

Tax State Land for Schools

Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Fred Thiele

Assembly Member · Assembly District 1

No co-sponsors yet.

History

  1. Referred to ways and means
  2. Reported referred to ways and means
  3. Print number 7291a
  4. Amend and recommit to real property taxation
  5. Referred to real property taxation

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.

S5270Senate

Tax State Land for Schools

In Senate Committee · Local Government · Sponsor Kenneth P. LaValle

Impact 4 · Low0% to pass

Full text

2 pagesUnderlined is new[Struck] is removedOfficial text on nysenate.gov ↗

STATE OF NEW YORK

S. 5270--A A. 7291--A

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

SENATE - ASSEMBLY

April 22, 2019

IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to providing that state lands within the Eastport-South Manor Central School District are subject to taxation for school purposes

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

Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 536 of the real property tax law, as amended by section 4 of part CC of chapter 58 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:

(e) Lands owned by the state, within the core preservation area of the Central Pine Barrens area as described and bounded by subdivision eleven of section 57-0107 of the environmental conservation law, situate in the following school districts:

County School District Town

Suffolk Rocky Point Union Free Brookhaven

school district

[Eastport Union Free school] Brookhaven

[district] Eastport-South Southampton

Manor Central school

district

Longwood Central school Brookhaven

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

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD03303-02-9

S. 5270--A 2 A. 7291--A

district

Riverhead Central school Brookhaven

district Riverhead

Southampton

Hampton Bays Union Free Southampton

school district

Shoreham-Wading River Brookhaven

Central school Riverhead

district

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

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