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Home/Bills/A 4458New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 4458: Increases from 50 to 100 acres, the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 11, 2026

What A 4458 does, verified January 11, 2026

The bill aims to increase the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes. This change will allow more land to be eligible for agricultural assessment, which can lead to lower property taxes. The bill limits the amount of farm woodland that can be attributed to a separately described and assessed parcel to one hundred acres. This change will take effect immediately.

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Last action: referred to agriculture (2026-01-07)Alert me
Recent actions2 total · showing 2
Jan. 07, 2026referred to agriculture
Feb. 04, 2025referred to agriculture
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 4, 2025 · 195 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4458 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to increas- ing the acreage of farm woodland which qualifies as land used in agri- cultural production for agricultural assessment purposes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 4 of section 301 of the agricul- 2 ture and markets law, as amended by chapter 445 of the laws of 2002, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 d. Farm woodland which is part of land which is qualified for an agri- 5 cultural assessment, provided, however, that such farm woodland attrib- 6 utable to any separately described and assessed parcel shall not exceed 7 [fifty] one hundred acres. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01326-01-5 
Text of A 4458 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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