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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         3679--A
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 12, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT relating to establishing the real  property  tax  exemption  task
          force,  and  providing  for  its powers and duties; and repealing such
          provisions of law relating thereto
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Real  property  tax exemption task force. There is hereby
     2  established within the department of taxation and finance a real proper-
     3  ty tax exemption task force. The purpose of the task force shall  be  to
     4  study  and  prepare  a report which shall include, but not be limited to
     5  the following:
     6    (a) the types and classifications of New York real properties that can
     7  and have been granted tax exemptions;
     8    (b) the number of each type and classification of real property grant-
     9  ed a partial exemption and the number granted a full exemption  and  the
    10  total value of each;
    11    (c)  the process by which each type and classification has been or can
    12  be granted a tax exemption;
    13    (d) the types and classifications of real property, if  any,  required
    14  by federal law to be given a tax exemption;
    15    (e)  the number of real properties that have been given tax exemptions
    16  by industrial development agencies and the  total  value  of  these  tax
    17  exemptions; and
    18    (f)  recommendations  as  to  whether  the  types  and classifications
    19  permitting such tax exemptions should be continued or reformed.
    20    § 2. The real property tax exemption task force  shall  consist  of  a
    21  total  of  seven members and shall include: the commissioner of taxation
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05110-02-0
        S. 3679--A                          2
 
     1  and finance or his or her designee; the comptroller or his or her desig-
     2  nee; the attorney general or his or her designee; one  person  appointed
     3  by  the  temporary  president of the senate; one person appointed by the
     4  minority  leader  of  the senate; one person appointed by the speaker of
     5  the assembly; and one person appointed by the  minority  leader  of  the
     6  assembly.  All  appointees to the real property tax exemption task force
     7  shall be made no later than thirty days after the effective date of this
     8  act. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority.
     9    § 3. The members of the real property tax exemption task  force  shall
    10  serve  without  compensation, except that members shall be allowed their
    11  necessary and actual expenses  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their
    12  duties under this act.
    13    §  4.  The  department  of taxation and finance shall provide the real
    14  property tax exemption task force with such facilities, assistance,  and
    15  data as will enable such task force to carry out its powers and duties.
    16    §  5.  The real property tax exemption task force shall issue a report
    17  of its findings and recommendations to the legislature within  one  year
    18  of its establishment.
    19    §  6.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    20  deemed repealed two years after such effective date, or upon delivery of
    21  the report required by section five of this act, whichever comes  first;
    22  provided  that  the  real property tax exemption task force shall notify
    23  the legislative bill drafting commission upon  delivery  of  the  report
    24  required  by  section  five of this act in order that the commission may
    25  maintain an accurate and timely effective database of the official  text
    26  of  the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the
    27  provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of  the
    28  public officers law.