Bill Text: NY S00169 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes competitive paperwork reduction project grants; provides that such grants may be included for calculations of government efficiency plans.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S00169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00169-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           169

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. TEDISCO, BOYLE, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to grants to assist local
          governments with reducing paper

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

     1    Section  1.  Article 7 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 171 to read as follows:
     3    § 171. Grants to local governments for the reduction of paper use.  1.
     4  Within  the annual amounts appropriated therefor, the secretary of state
     5  may award grants on a competitive basis to local governments in order to
     6  reduce paper usage and to implement digital alternatives to  paper.  The
     7  secretary  of  state  shall  by  regulation  establish criteria for such
     8  competitive grants, which shall at a minimum:
     9    (a) provide that the maximum grant amount shall not exceed  ten  thou-
    10  sand dollars per local government;
    11    (b)  require  local matching funds equal to twenty-five percent of the
    12  total amount of such grant; and
    13    (c) establish an application, evaluation, and award process  for  such
    14  grant program, which shall be competitive and publicly available.
    15    2. Grants awarded to local governments pursuant to this section may be
    16  included  in  calculations  to  demonstrate  three year cost savings and
    17  efficiencies for government efficiency plans submitted to  the  director
    18  of the budget pursuant to subdivisions three and four of section three-d
    19  of the general municipal law.
    20    3. For the purposes of this section, the term "local government" shall
    21  have  the  same  meaning  as in section three-c of the general municipal
    22  law.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have become a law.

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