STATE OF NEW YORK
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6559
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 17, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, MATTERA, PALUMBO, WEBER -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to real property
tax exemptions for certain disabled veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 458-a of the real property tax law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of
4 this subdivision, a county, city, town, village or school district
5 acting by and through its governing body, may grant to a veteran, or the
6 unmarried surviving spouse of such veteran, who served in a combat thea-
7 tre or combat zone of operations, and who is one hundred percent disa-
8 bled as a result of military service, a one hundred percent exemption
9 from real property taxation. The local maximum exemption allowance
10 adopted by a local law pursuant to paragraph (d) of this subdivision
11 shall not apply to such exemptions of one hundred percent disabled
12 veterans.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess-
14 ment rolls prepared on and after January 1, 2025.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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