Bill Text: NY S01140 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the state shall cover the cost of maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies up to certain set limits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S01140 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01140-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1140

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to the  cost  of
          maintenance and operation of veterans' service agencies

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 16 of the veterans' services  law,
     2  is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  A  local  director  shall  designate the location of the local and
     4  branch offices of the local veterans' service agency within his  or  her
     5  jurisdiction,  which  offices shall be open during convenient hours. The
     6  [cost of maintenance and operation of a county veterans' service  agency
     7  shall  be a county charge and the cost of maintenance and operation of a
     8  city veterans' service agency shall be a  city  charge,  excepting  that
     9  the]  state  commissioner  with  the  approval of the veterans' services
    10  commission shall allot and pay, from state moneys made available to  him
    11  or  her  for  such purposes, to each county veterans' service agency and
    12  each city veterans' service agency, an amount equal to [fifty per centum
    13  of] its expenditures for maintenance and operation approved by the state
    14  commissioner, provided that in no event shall the  amount  allotted  and
    15  paid  for  such  approved expenditures incurred in any given year exceed
    16  (1) in the case of any county  veterans'  service  agency  in  a  county
    17  having a population of not more than one hundred thousand or in the case
    18  of  any  city  veterans' service agency in a city having a population of
    19  not more than one hundred thousand,  the  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand
    20  dollars, nor (2) in the case of any county veterans' service agency in a
    21  county  having  a population in excess of one hundred thousand excluding
    22  the population of any city therein which has a  city  veterans'  service
    23  agency, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and, in addition there-
    24  to,  the  sum of five thousand dollars for each one hundred thousand, or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1140                             2

     1  major portion thereof, of the population of the county in excess of  one
     2  hundred  thousand excluding the population of any city therein which has
     3  a city veterans' service agency, nor (3) in the case of any city  veter-
     4  ans'  service  agency  in  a  city  having a population in excess of one
     5  hundred thousand, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and, in addi-
     6  tion thereto, the sum of five thousand  dollars  for  each  one  hundred
     7  thousand,  or  major  portion  thereof, of the population of the city in
     8  excess of one hundred thousand. Such population shall  be  certified  in
     9  the  same  manner as provided by section fifty-four of the state finance
    10  law.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    12  manner  as section 2 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, takes
    13  effect.