Bill Text: NY A00705 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to requiring a certain percentage of the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund's revenue be disbursed on a pay-as-you-go basis for capital projects.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A00705 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00705-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           705
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RODRIGUEZ  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Ways and Means
        AN ACT to amend the state  finance  law,  in  relation  to  the  capital
          project spending by the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 89-b of the state finance law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12.  (a)  By the year two thousand twenty, thirty percent of dedicated
     4  revenue remaining after debt service has been paid shall be disbursed on
     5  a pay-as-you-go basis from the fund for capital projects.   By the  year
     6  two  thousand twenty-eight, forty percent of dedicated revenue remaining
     7  after debt service has been paid shall be disbursed on  a  pay-as-you-go
     8  basis from the fund for capital projects. By the year two thousand thir-
     9  ty-eight,  fifty  percent  of all dedicated revenue remaining after debt
    10  service has been paid shall be disbursed on a pay-as-you-go  basis  from
    11  the fund for capital projects.
    12    (b)  During  years  in which total dedicated revenue is twenty percent
    13  less than the previous year, these disbursement  requirements  shall  be
    14  deemed waived for that year.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04348-01-7
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