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S03194 Summary:

BILL NOS03194
 
SAME ASSAME AS A03450
 
SPONSORSKOUFIS
 
COSPNSRADDABBO, ASHBY, HELMING, MATTERA, O'MARA, PERSAUD, RYAN C, STEC
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §458-a, RPT L
 
Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption; includes more recent hostilities in the definition of "period of war".
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S03194 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3194
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 24, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD06664-01-5
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