Bill Text: NY A01194 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the use of funds and payments from the IOLA fund; provides that funds and payments shall not be used for any other purpose other than as stated in section 97-v of the state finance law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to governmental operations [A01194 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01194-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1194

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, ROSENTHAL, RAGA, SIMONE, LUPARDO -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to amend the state finance law, in relation to the use of funds
          and payments from the IOLA fund

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph f of subdivision 3 of section 97-v of the state
     2  finance law, as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1983, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    f.  The  board  shall  insure  that grants and contracts are made with
     5  not-for-profit providers of civil legal services for the poor to provide
     6  stable, economical and high quality delivery of civil legal services  to
     7  the  poor  throughout  the  state. Notwithstanding any provision of law,
     8  rule or regulation to the contrary, funds shall  not  be  used  for  any
     9  other purpose other than as stated in this section.
    10    § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 3 of section 97-v of the state finance
    11  law,  as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
    12  follows:
    13    h. All payments from the IOLA fund shall be made by  the  state  comp-
    14  troller upon certification and authorization of the board of trustees of
    15  the  fund.  Notwithstanding  any provision of law, rule or regulation to
    16  the contrary, payments shall not be used for  any  other  purpose  other
    17  than as stated in this section.
    18    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    19  the date on which it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03321-01-5