What's happening
This bill limits annual property tax shifts between classes in Orangetown, Rockland County, to one percent for 2018-2020 assessment rolls.
Why it matters
Limits Sudden Tax Increases. By capping annual property tax shifts between property classes to 1%, the bill helps prevent large, unexpected tax hikes for certain types of property owners from year to year, offering more predictability and stability.
Extends Protections for Additional Years. The amendment expands the limitation to cover both the 2018–2019 and 2019–2020 assessment rolls, providing ongoing relief and continuity for taxpayers in Orangetown.
Requires Local Government Action. The shift limitation only applies if the town’s local government passes a law or resolution to enact it, meaning local input and oversight is necessary before these protections take effect.
Aims to Balance Tax Burden Fairly. By restricting how much the tax burden can shift among property classes (such as residential vs. commercial), the bill seeks to avoid unfair redistribution of property tax responsibilities, which can impact home values, rents, and business costs in the community.
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Who cares
Orangetown property owners
The bill would extend to the 2019–2020 assessment roll a limit on increases in each property class’s share of the tax burden, subject to local approval.
Orangetown’s local legislative body
It would need to adopt a local law, ordinance or resolution to apply the cap and adjust class proportions so they total one.
Orangetown assessment and tax officials
They would apply the one percent limit when calculating current base proportions for taxes based on the 2019–2020 assessment roll.
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Limit Property Tax Shifts
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Sponsors
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Signed chap.121
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- 3rd reading cal.799
- Substituted for S5253A
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.546
- Reported
- Reported referred to ways and means
Show 3 earlier actions
- Print number 7310a
- Amend and recommit to real property taxation
- 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.
Limit Property Tax Shifts
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor David Carlucci
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7310--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- 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 limiting the shift between classes of taxable property in the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph (xix) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 1903 of the real property tax law, as added by chapter 139 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
(xix) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in an approved assessing unit in the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland and for current base proportions to be determined by taxes based on such approved assessing unit's two thousand eighteen--two thousand nineteen and two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty assessment [roll] rolls, the current base proportion of any class shall not exceed the adjusted base proportion or adjusted proportion, whichever is appropriate, of the immediately preceding year, by more than one percent, provided that such approved assessing unit has passed a local law, ordinance or resolution providing therefor. Where the computation of current base proportions would otherwise produce such result, the current base proportion of such class or classes shall be limited to such one percent increase and the legislative body of such approved assessing unit shall alter the current base proportion of either class so that the sum of the current base proportions equals one.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11245-02-9
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