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Local Government Committee reports six bills out of committee
Summary
The Local Government Committee voted to report several bills, including measures on property tax exemptions for surviving spouses of volunteer first responders, village justice residency, school district indebtedness exclusions, village vacancy filings, EMS fee authority, and preservation of regionally significant projects.
The Local Government Committee voted to report several bills to the next stage of consideration. The items recorded as reported out during the meeting were:
- Senate Bill 688 (Senator Martinez): An act to amend the Real Property Tax Law in relation to a real property tax exemption for surviving spouses of volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers. The committee recorded the bill as reported out.
- Senate Bill 1678 (Senator Chris Ryan): An act to authorize the board of trustees of the village of East Syracuse to permit the office of village justice or associate justice to be held by a nonresident who resides in the town of DeWitt. The committee recorded the bill as reported out.
- Senate Bill 3367 (Senator Mayer): An act to amend the Local Finance Law in relation to the exclusion of certain indebtedness of school districts in a city of 125,000 inhabitants or more. The committee recorded the bill as reported out.
- Senate Bill 4483 (Senator Mayer): An act to amend the Village Law in relation to filing vacancies in elective offices in villages with November elections. The committee recorded the bill as reported out.
- Senate Bill 4930 (Senator Martinez): An act to amend chapter 55 of the laws of 2022 amending the General Municipal Law and the Town Law relating to authorizing fees and charges for emergency medical services, making those provisions permanent. The committee recorded the bill as reported out.
- Senate Bill 4980 (Senator Martinez): An act to amend the General Municipal Law in relation to the preservation of regionally significant projects. The committee recorded the bill as reported out.
Most items received motions and seconds on the record and were passed without extended debate during the meeting. Several motions included AWR (as recorded in the transcript) during the roll calls. No amendments to the bills were recorded in the meeting transcript, and no fiscal details or final enactment dates were presented during the committee session.
Votes at a glance: each bill was reported out of the Local Government Committee to the next committee or calendar; the meeting transcript records affirmative voice votes or recorded 'Aye' responses, but specific numeric tallies were not provided for these bills in the transcript except where noted separately.
Listed below are the motions and recorded movers/seconders where identified in the transcript.
