Bill Text: NY A09374 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a municipal senior center capital support program in the office for the aging to assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the purchase of senior buses; directs the director of the office for the aging to develop an application and establish criteria for the disbursement of grants to eligible municipalities for the purpose of procuring senior buses; makes an appropriation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-06 - referred to aging [A09374 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09374-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9374

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Aging

        AN  ACT  to amend the elder law, in relation to establishing a municipal
          senior center capital support program in the office for the  aging  to
          assist  municipalities  in  accessing  capital funds necessary for the
          purchase of senior buses; and making an appropriation therefor

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

     1    Section  1.  The  elder  law is amended by adding a new section 226 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 226. Municipal senior center capital support program.  1.  There  is
     4  hereby created within the office for the aging a municipal senior center
     5  capital  support  program  to  assist  municipalities in the purchase of
     6  vehicles for the transportation of senior citizens residing  within  the
     7  boundaries of the municipality to qualifying events as determined by the
     8  director.
     9    2.    Within amounts specifically appropriated therefore, the director
    10  shall award grants to a municipality in an  amount  not  to  exceed  one
    11  hundred  thousand  dollars per municipality for the acquisition of buses
    12  or other means of transportation related equipment for  the  purpose  of
    13  transportation  of  senior citizens.   Such buses and/or equipment shall
    14  have a useful life of not less than five years.
    15    3. No funds authorized under this section may be used  as  a  required
    16  match  or  be  considered a local share to any other state program or to
    17  leverage state aid or grants.
    18    4. (a) The director of the state office for the aging shall develop an
    19  application for use by eligible municipalities to apply for a  grant,  a
    20  list   of  approved  transportation  equipment,  and  criteria  for  the
    21  disbursement of funds authorized to an eligible municipality.
    22    (b) The director shall promulgate rules and regulations  as  necessary
    23  to carry out the provisions of this section.
    24    5.  For the purposes of this section, "municipality" means a municipal
    25  corporation as defined pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-n of the
    26  general municipal law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14030-01-4
        A. 9374                             2

     1    § 2. The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000), or so much thereof
     2  as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the state office for  the
     3  aging  out  of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund, not
     4  otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the  purpose
     5  of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable
     6  on  the  audit  and  warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
     7  approved by the director of the state office for the aging in the manner
     8  prescribed by law.
     9    § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    10  sion, section or part of this act shall be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
    11  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
    12  impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
    13  its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
    14  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
    15  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
    16  the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
    17  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    18    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.