STATE OF NEW YORK
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3194
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, ADDABBO, ASHBY, HELMING, MATTERA, O'MARA,
PERSAUD, STEC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili-
tary Affairs
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to defining
"period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 458-a of the real
2 property tax law, as amended by chapter 606 of the laws of 2021, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) "Period of war" means the Spanish-American war; the Mexican border
5 period; World War I; World War II; the hostilities, known as the Korean
6 war, which commenced June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred fifty and
7 terminated on January thirty-first, nineteen hundred fifty-five; the
8 hostilities, known as the Vietnam war, which commenced November first,
9 nineteen hundred fifty-five and terminated on May seventh, nineteen
10 hundred seventy-five; [and] the hostilities, known as the Persian Gulf
11 conflict, which commenced August second, nineteen hundred ninety[.]; the
12 hostilities participated in by the military forces of the United States
13 in the Global War on Terrorism from September eleventh, two thousand one
14 through the end of such hostilities; and the hostilities participated in
15 by the military forces of the United States in NATO related combat thea-
16 ters in Somalia from August, nineteen hundred ninety-two through March,
17 nineteen hundred ninety-four, Bosnia in December, nineteen hundred nine-
18 ty-five through November, two thousand four and Kosovo in April, nine-
19 teen hundred ninety-nine through June, nineteen hundred ninety-nine.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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