Bill Text: NY S00289 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the state to acquire from the federal government the Franklin Delano Roosevelt campus of the department of veterans affairs Hudson Valley health care system at Montrose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00289 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00289-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           289
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  authorizing  the
          state  to  acquire  from  the  federal  government the Franklin Delano
          Roosevelt campus of the department of veterans affairs  Hudson  Valley
          health care system at Montrose
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 403 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. Notwithstanding any  other  inconsistent  provisions  of  law,  the
     4  commissioner, with approval of the director of the budget and the direc-
     5  tor  of  the  division  of  veterans affairs, may acquire or contract to
     6  acquire from the federal government by grant, purchase, condemnation  or
     7  otherwise,  the  Franklin  Delano  Roosevelt campus of the department of
     8  veterans affairs Hudson Valley health care system  at  Montrose,  except
     9  those  structures  built or acquired by the federal government which are
    10  being used for veterans' purposes, or any interest therein, subject,  if
    11  acquired  by  condemnation  to  the  procedures set forth in the eminent
    12  domain procedure law; provided that such properties be used by the state
    13  for veterans' purposes. For the purposes of this subdivision, "veterans'
    14  purposes" shall not encompass those property uses that are brought about
    15  as a result of the enhanced use lease procedures set forth  in  sections
    16  eighty-one  hundred  sixty-one  through eighty-one hundred sixty-nine of
    17  title thirty-eight of the United States code.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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