New York / State / 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

Chapter 672 of 2025 (S1183 / A74) Created a local option full property tax exemption for seriously disabled veterans in RPTL 458-a(11)

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Expands benefits Lets a locality fully exempt the primary residence of a seriously disabled veteran.

Signed December 19, 2025. As enacted, a local option whose eligibility joined four tests with "and": permanent and total, rated 100 percent, rated individually unemployable, and eligible for VA housing assistance. Superseded before it applied by chapter 77 and Part EE of chapter 59 of 2026.

Progress

Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature

  1. Introduced Done, Senate
  2. In committee Done, Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs, then Assembly Real Property Taxation
  3. Passed one chamber Done, Senate
  4. Passed both chambers Done, Assembly
  5. Signed by the governor Done, With approval memo 53
  6. In effect Done,

Sponsors

  • AddabboSponsor, Senate
  • AshbyCo-sponsor, Senate
  • Canzoneri-FitzpatrickCo-sponsor, Senate
  • ChanCo-sponsor, Senate
  • CooneyCo-sponsor, Senate
  • GriffoCo-sponsor, Senate
  • HarckhamCo-sponsor, Senate
  • HelmingCo-sponsor, Senate
  • HincheyCo-sponsor, Senate
  • JacksonCo-sponsor, Senate
  • MartinezCo-sponsor, Senate
  • MartinsCo-sponsor, Senate
  • MatteraCo-sponsor, Senate
  • MurrayCo-sponsor, Senate
  • O'MaraCo-sponsor, Senate
  • PalumboCo-sponsor, Senate
  • RamosCo-sponsor, Senate
  • RhoadsCo-sponsor, Senate
  • RolisonCo-sponsor, Senate
  • Scarcella-SpantonCo-sponsor, Senate
  • SkoufisCo-sponsor, Senate
  • StecCo-sponsor, Senate
  • WebbCo-sponsor, Senate
  • WeberCo-sponsor, Senate
  • WeikCo-sponsor, Senate

What it touches

  • N.Y. Real Prop. Tax Law § 458-a(11)

Catalog entry

Official record

Read Chapter 672 of 2025 (S1183 / A74) on the jurisdiction's own record