New York S 8549: Relates to establishing procedure guidelines for custody agreements involving child abuse, family violence and/or domestic violence

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S08549 Summary:

BILL NOS08549 

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SPONSORWEIK

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COSPNSRPALUMBO, RHOADS

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Add §459-d, RPT L

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Establishes a real property tax exemption for police officers who have a one hundred percent service-connected disability.

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BILL NOS08549 

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10/24/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8549

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 October 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to establishing a
 real property tax exemption for police officers who have a one hundred
 percent service-connected disability

 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 459-d to read as follows:
 3 § 459-d. Police officers with a service-connected disability. 1. Real
 4 property owned by a seriously disabled police officer, and constituting
 5 the primary residence of such police officer shall be deemed fully
 6 exempt from all taxes imposed upon such property for city, village,
 7 town, part town, special district or county purposes, provided that the
 8 governing body of a city, village, town or county, after a public hear-
 9 ing, adopts a local law, ordinance or resolution providing therefor.
 10 2. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have
 11 the following meanings:
 12 (a) "police officer" shall have the same meaning as defined in section
 13 1.20 of the criminal procedure law;
 14 (b) "seriously disabled police officer" shall mean a police officer
 15 who, through no fault or misconduct on such officer's part is totally
 16 and permanently disabled (i) by injuries received in the discharge of
 17 such officer's duties, or, (ii) as a result of illness attributable to
 18 the performance of such duties. Such disability shall be certified to by
 19 a duly licensed physician or physicians stating that such officer is one
 20 hundred percent physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance
 21 of police duty.
 22 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
 23 provisions of this section shall apply to any real property held in
 24 trust solely for the benefit of a person or persons who would otherwise

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13636-01-5

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 1 be eligible for a real property tax exemption, pursuant to subdivision
 2 one of this section, were such person or persons the owner or owners of
 3 such real property.
 4 4. (a) For the purposes of this section, title to that portion of real
 5 property owned by a cooperative apartment corporation in which a
 6 tenant-stockholder of such corporation resides and which is represented
 7 by their share or shares of stock in such corporation as determined by
 8 its or their proportional relationship to the total outstanding stock of
 9 the corporation, including that owned by the corporation, shall be
 10 deemed to be vested in such tenant-stockholder.
 11 (b) Provided that all other eligibility criteria of this section are
 12 met, that proportion of the assessment of such real property owned by a
 13 cooperative apartment corporation determined by the relationship of such
 14 real property vested in such tenant-stockholder to such real property
 15 owned by such cooperative apartment corporation in which such tenant-
 16 stockholder resides shall be subject to exemption from taxation pursuant
 17 to this section and any exemption so granted shall be credited by the
 18 appropriate taxing authority against the assessed valuation of such real
 19 property; the reduction in real property taxes realized thereby shall be
 20 credited by the cooperative apartment corporation against the amount of
 21 such taxes otherwise payable by or chargeable to