STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4616 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SEMPOLINSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation AN ACT to amend the public lands law, in relation to the payment of state aid on account of certain state lands in the town of New Hudson, in the county of Allegany The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 19-b of the public lands 2 law, subdivision 1 as added by chapter 260 of the laws of 1980 and 3 subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 373 of the laws of 1981, are amended 4 to read as follows: 5 1. State aid shall be payable to any municipal corporation or special 6 district as such terms are defined by section one hundred two of the 7 real property tax law and hereinafter collectively referred to in this 8 section as "taxing authority", when on any assessment roll the taxable 9 assessed valuation in such taxing authority is decreased in any year by 10 reason of the transfer of title or possession of land or improvements 11 thereon (a) to the state or an agency of the state located at West 12 Valley, Cattaraugus county and theretofore utilized by the corporation 13 known as "Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc."; or (b) to the state located in 14 the town of New Hudson, in the county of Allegany, and theretofore 15 subject to the jurisdiction of the department of environmental conserva- 16 tion. 17 2. The state aid payable to a taxing authority pursuant to this 18 section shall be computed and paid during the first fiscal year of any 19 such taxing authority commencing on or after January first, nineteen 20 hundred eighty-one, and during each fiscal year thereafter. Such state 21 aid shall in each year be equal to the amount of taxes levied or which 22 would have been levied by or in behalf of the taxing authority against 23 such lands and the improvements thereon on the last assessment roll 24 finally completed in the year that the land was acquired by the state, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01620-01-5A. 4616 2 1 adjusted for any change in assessment, but not less than the assessment 2 roll completed in nineteen hundred eighty. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and the first payment of 4 state aid shall be based upon assessment rolls completed in 2024.