This bill creates a 50% property tax exemption on the primary residence of surviving spouses whose police officer spouse died while performing duty. It directly affects surviving spouses of officers killed in the line of duty, providing immediate tax relief on their home. The exemption applies to the assessed value of the primary residence, with local governments allowed to reduce the percentage. The law requires local authorities to adopt specific resolutions to implement the exemption and establishes documentation standards through the state's criminal justice and tax services divisions.
Authorizes municipalities to offer a real property tax exemption for active military service members who at any time during the taxable year performed active duty in the armed forces in a combat zone; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Authorizes localities to provide for an additional real property tax exemption for senior citizens who meet the income eligibility limits and other criteria to the extent of sixty-five percent of the assessed valuation of such real property.
Relates to increasing the amount of the childcare center tax abatement for certain properties in a city having a population of one million or more for abatements taken in a tax year commencing on or after July first, two thousand twenty-five; provides that no such childcare center tax abatement shall be authorized for any tax year commencing on or after July first, two thousand thirty-two; extends the deadline for application for such childcare center tax abatement to March fifteenth, two thousand twenty-seven.
Requires the New York state thruway authority to submit biannual reports to the legislature of all fiscal transactions, receipts and expenditures, with each report covering activity from the prior six months.
Establishes a fraud assessment commission; directs the chair of the workers' compensation board, in consultation with the workers' compensation fraud inspector general and the fraud assessment commission, to establish an assessment for workers' compensation fraud investigations to fund the investigation and prosecution of workers' compensation fraud, willful failure to secure payment of workers' compensation, and failure to keep true and accurate records; establishes the workers' compensation fraud investigation fund in the joint custody of the chair of the workers' compensation board, the commissioner of labor, and the comptroller, which shall consist of monies received from the imposition of the assessment for workers' compensation fraud investigations.
Amends the real property tax exemption for surviving spouses of volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers killed in the line of duty to permit continuation of such exemption for volunteer members with service between two and five years.
Provides a tax exemption on real property owned by active auxiliary police officers in local law enforcement agencies in certain counties having a population of more than three hundred thirty-eight thousand and less than three hundred forty thousand, determined in accordance with the latest federal decennial census.
Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof.
Authorizes the town of Orangetown to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
