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S02331 Summary:

BILL NO	S02331
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	ALCANTARA
COSPNSR	SEPULVEDA
MLTSPNSR
Amd §485-b, RPT L
Requires entities receiving a certain tax exemption to utilize New York State residents as at least eighty-five percent of its workforce during the course of a project for which the exemption is claimed.

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S02331 Actions:

BILL NO	S02331
01/13/2017	REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
01/03/2018	REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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S02331 Committee Votes:

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S02331 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2331
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 13, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the employment
          of New York state residents by entities receiving certain tax breaks
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 485-b of the  real  property  tax
     2  law,  as  renumbered  by  chapter 305 of the laws of 1994, is renumbered
     3  subdivision 14 and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows:
     4    13. (a) Any entity shall not be  entitled  to  receive  the  exemption
     5  provided  by  this  section  unless  at least eighty-five percent of its
     6  employees are residents of this state or  the  entity  falls  within  an
     7  exception listed in paragraph (b) of this subdivision.
     8    (b)  An entity may receive the exemption provided by this section with
     9  a workforce where less than eighty-five percent  of  the  employees  are
    10  residents of this state if it can show that:
    11    (i)  it  made diligent efforts to hire resident employees, but no such
    12  employees existed or were qualified for the employment position; or
    13    (ii) the employment position requires  specialized  talents  that  can
    14  only be filled by individuals who happen to reside outside this state.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law and shall apply to any exemption claimed on  or  after
    17  such effective date.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06943-01-7

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