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Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.

Choosing a jurisdiction overrides the level. Stage is where the bill stands in its own jurisdiction's process. Direction is whether it expands or restricts benefits, recorded only where the reason can be read from the bill. Outcome is whether the instrument became law; catalog status is whether this catalog has been reconciled against it. None of this is legal advice, and a tracked item is a pointer to the official record rather than a substitute for reading it.

4 instruments in New York. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.

A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.

New YorkState

Chapter 59 of 2026, Part EE Restored local option for the 458-a(11) full exemption and set a single permanent and total test

Catalog reconciledEnactedScope changed

Signed Takes effect

  1. Introduced Done, , step 1 of 6
  2. In committee Done, , step 2 of 6
  3. Passed one chamber Done, , step 3 of 6
  4. Passed both chambers Done, , step 4 of 6
  5. Signed by the governor Done, , step 5 of 6
  6. In effect Done, , step 6 of 6

Expands and restricts Replaces the four joined tests with a single permanent and total test, but makes the exemption a local option again.

The budget made the full exemption a local option again for each county, city, town, village and school district, required a VA letter stating the veteran is permanently and totally disabled as a result of military service, and added a 30-day notice to the Department of Veterans’ Services, which must keep a public list of adopters. Applies to rolls based on taxable status dates on or after October 1, 2026. The Department of Taxation and Finance cites it with chapters 672 of 2025 and 77 of 2026.

Sponsor

  • Budget bill, submitted by the GovernorSenate

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

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Official record

New YorkState

Chapter 688 of 2025 (S4358A), amended by chapter 22 of 2026 (A9476) Lets a veteran transfer an unused Veterans Tuition Award to one family member from July 1, 2027

Watching a later dateEnactedScope changed

Signed Takes effect

  1. Introduced Done, , step 1 of 6
  2. In committee Done, , step 2 of 6
  3. Passed one chamber Done, , step 3 of 6
  4. Passed both chambers Done, , step 4 of 6
  5. Signed by the governor Done, , step 5 of 6
  6. In effect Scheduled for , step 6 of 6

Expands benefits Lets a veteran transfer an unused Veterans Tuition Award once, to one family member, from July 1, 2027.

A qualified veteran may transfer an unused award once, to one spouse, child under 26 or financial dependent residing in New York, capped at 100 transfers a year statewide. Chapter 688 was signed December 19, 2025; the chapter amendment, signed February 13, 2026, narrowed it and delayed it to July 1, 2027. The text is already printed in Education Law 669-a with an effective-date note.

Sponsor

  • DinowitzAssembly

Touches N.Y. Educ. Law § 669-a

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Official record

New YorkState

Chapter 77 of 2026 (A9448 / S8803) Chapter amendment that made the 458-a(11) exemption mandatory and moved its start to October 1, 2026

Catalog reconciledEnactedScope changed

Signed Takes effect

  1. Introduced Done, , step 1 of 6
  2. In committee Done, , step 2 of 6
  3. Passed one chamber Done, , step 3 of 6
  4. Passed both chambers Done, , step 4 of 6
  5. Signed by the governor Done, , step 5 of 6
  6. In effect Done, , step 6 of 6

Expands benefits Makes the full exemption one that every taxing jurisdiction must grant.

Signed February 13, 2026. Rewrote subdivision 11 as an exemption every taxing jurisdiction had to grant and applied it to rolls based on taxable status dates on or after October 1, 2026. The sponsor announced a mandatory exemption for 100 percent disabled veterans. Part EE of chapter 59 of 2026 reversed the mandatory part within months, so descriptions based on this chapter are wrong.

Sponsor

  • AddabboSenate

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

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Official record

New YorkState

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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Signed

  1. Introduced Done, , step 1 of 6
  2. In committee Done, , step 2 of 6
  3. Passed one chamber Done, , step 3 of 6
  4. Passed both chambers Done, , step 4 of 6
  5. Signed by the governor Done, , step 5 of 6
  6. In effect Done, , step 6 of 6

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.

Sponsor

  • AddabboSenate

And 24 co-sponsors

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

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Official record

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