STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7001 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 29, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER, LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to allowing towns to adopt a local law to include reserve veterans for the veteran alternative exemption The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 458-a of the real property tax 2 law, as added by chapter 476 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 10. A county, city, town, village or school district may adopt a local 5 law or resolution to include those military personnel who served in the 6 Reserve component of the United States Armed Forces that were deemed on 7 active duty under Executive Order 11519 signed March twenty-third, nine- 8 teen hundred seventy, 35 Federal Register 5003, dated March twenty- 9 fourth, nineteen hundred seventy and later designated by the United 10 States Department of Defense as Operation Graphic Hand, if such member 11 was discharged or released therefrom under honorable conditions, 12 provided that such veteran meets all other qualifications of this 13 section. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to assess- 15 ment rolls on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after 16 the second day of January next succeeding the date on which this act 17 shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10802-01-7