Bill Text: NY A02024 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the New York state rural mobile communications fund to provide grants for the purpose of increasing cellular service in low- to no-coverage areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to ways and means [A02024 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02024-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2024

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SMULLEN, McDONOUGH, TAGUE, PALMESANO, MANKTELOW,
          LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO, ANGELINO, E. BROWN,  BEEPHAN  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

        AN  ACT  to  amend the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to
          establishing the New York state rural mobile communications fund

          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 5 of section 186-f of the tax
     2  law, as added by section 3 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of  2009,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  forty-one and seven-tenths of the revenues collected and received
     5  under this section into the [state general] New York state rural  mobile
     6  communications fund established pursuant to section ninety-nine-g; and
     7    §  2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-g to
     8  read as follows:
     9    § 99-g. New York state rural mobile communications fund.  1.    Estab-
    10  lishment  of  the fund. There is hereby established in the joint custody
    11  of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance  a
    12  special  fund  to  be  known as the New York state rural mobile communi-
    13  cations fund. Moneys in this account shall  be  kept  separate  and  not
    14  commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the comptroller.
    15    2.  Source  of  funds. The sum equal to the amount identified in para-
    16  graph (a) of subdivision five of section one hundred eighty-six-f of the
    17  tax law shall be credited to the fund.
    18    3. Use of funds. Such moneys shall be used for the purpose of  provid-
    19  ing  rural areas, as defined in subdivision eight of section two hundred
    20  sixty of the agriculture and markets law, in the state with  grants  for
    21  the purpose of increasing cellular service in low- to no-coverage areas.
    22  Priority  shall  be  given to applicants in rural areas who can identify
    23  public safety concerns resulting from lack of cellular service.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04556-01-5
        A. 2024                             2

     1    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
     2  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
     3  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
     4  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
     5  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.