S00740 Summary:
BILL NO | S00740 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS A01039 |
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SPONSOR | KENNEDY |
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COSPNSR | |
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Add S497, RPT L | |
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Caps the amount of taxes a senior has to pay on his or her real property at the amount such individual paid in the year in which he or she turned 70; provides that the individual claiming the limitation must be the owner of the property and must reside in the property for at least seventy-five percent of the year. |
S00740 Actions:
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01/07/2015 | REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/06/2016 | REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT |
S00740 Committee Votes:
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Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 740 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 limitation of taxation on certain seniors The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The real property tax law is amended by adding a new 2 section 497 to read as follows: 3 § 497. Limitation of taxation on certain seniors. 1. The amount of 4 taxes paid on real property by qualified seniors in subsequent years, 5 including school taxes, shall not exceed the amount paid by such indi- 6 vidual in the year in which he or she turns seventy years of age. 7 2. For purposes of this section, a qualified senior is an individual 8 who is: 9 a. the owner of the subject property; and 10 b. resides at the property for at least two hundred seventy-four days 11 in any given year; and 12 c. is at least seventy years of age. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 14 real property tax assessments occurring on or after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01671-01-5