Provides a temporary extension for payment of real property taxes owed by a person who has been either a furloughed or designated non-pay federal employee due to a period of a lapse in discretionary appropriations by the federal government, or by the spouse or domestic partner of such person; and provides for the repeal of such provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1675
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 providing a
temporary extension for payment of real property taxes owed by a
person who has been either a furloughed or designated non-pay federal
employee due to a period of a lapse in discretionary appropriations by
the federal government, or by the spouse or domestic partner of such
person; and to provide for the repeal of such provisions upon the
expiration thereof
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 925-e to read as follows:
3 § 925-e. Furloughed or non-pay federal workers; temporary extension.
4 Notwithstanding any other provision of law which relates to the
5 collection of real property tax owed to a municipal corporation or to
6 the imposition of penalties or interest therefor for a late payment owed
7 by a person who has been either a furloughed or designated non-pay
8 federal employee due to a period of a lapse in discretionary appropri-
9 ations by the federal government, or by the spouse or domestic partner
10 of such person, for real property of a person so furloughed or desig-
11 nated non-pay, any deadline with respect to the payment of such real
12 property tax shall be extended for a period of ninety days after the end
13 of such lapse in discretionary appropriations by the federal government
14 if such municipal corporation has passed a local resolution authorizing
15 such extension. A municipal corporation shall require documentation by
16 a person requesting an extension demonstrating that they have been
17 furloughed or designated non-pay as a result of a period of a lapse in
18 discretionary appropriations by the federal government.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
20 deem repealed on June 1, 2020.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07574-02-9
