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A08846 Summary:

BILL NOA08846
 
SAME ASSAME AS S07186
 
SPONSORZinerman
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §1190, RPT L; amd §11-319, NYC Ad Cd
 
Prohibits the sale of tax liens by a tax district in a city with a population of one million or more.
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A08846 Actions:

BILL NOA08846
 
06/09/2025referred to real property taxation
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A08846 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A8846
 
SPONSOR: Zinerman
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the real property tax law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the sale of tax liens by a tax district in a city with a population of one million or more   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Prohibits tax districts from selling their tax liens to private collec- tors, requiring municipalities to collect their own debts.   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1. Amends section 1190 of the Real Property Tax law to remove authority to sell real property tax obligations to private collectors and adds an explicit prohibition of that practice. Section 2 sets an effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Taxing jurisdictions currently can sell their tax liens to private debt collectors who then proceed to collect whatever amount of that lien that they can get. This practice can lead to abusive harassment of property owners who have in a difficult situation already, which is often why they are in arrears on their taxes. These debt collectors make their profits off the misery of others, and a taxing authority's inability to collect on its receivables. Neither of these situations are in the interest of well functioning government and should not be continued.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the first of January following its being made law.
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A08846 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8846
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 9, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Real Property Taxation
 
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law and the administrative code of
          the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the sale of tax liens
          by a tax district in a city with a population of one million or more

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 1190 of the  real
     2  property  tax  law,  as  amended  by chapter 149 of the laws of 2003, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a  tax
     5  district may enter into a contract to sell some or all of the delinquent
     6  tax liens held by it to the state of New York municipal bond bank agency
     7  created  pursuant  to  section  twenty-four  hundred thirty-three of the
     8  public authorities law, hereinafter referred to as the "bond  bank",  or
     9  to  one  or  more tax lien entities created by the bond bank pursuant to
    10  section twenty-four hundred thirty-five-b of the public authorities law.
    11  A tax district may enter into such a  contract  whether  or  not  it  is
    12  otherwise subject to the provisions of this article[; provided, however,
    13  that  any  county, city or town that is not subject to the provisions of
    14  this article pursuant to subdivision two of section eleven hundred  four
    15  of  this  article  may  continue to enforce the collection of delinquent
    16  taxes, including through the sale of tax liens,  pursuant  to  a  county
    17  charter,  city  charter,  administrative  code or special law]. Notwith-
    18  standing any provision of law to the contrary, no tax district in a city
    19  with a population of one million or more shall sell some or all  of  the
    20  tax liens held by it.
    21    § 2. Subdivision b of section 11-319 of the administrative code of the
    22  city  of  New  York  is  amended by adding a new paragraph 15 to read as
    23  follows:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11523-01-5

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     1    15. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, on and after
     2  the effective date of this subdivision, no tax lien shall be sold pursu-
     3  ant to this chapter.
     4    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     5  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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