Bill Text: NY S01637 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Awards grants to municipalities for any non-transportation related capital improvement projects with a maximum cumulative grant award not exceeding $250,000; makes an appropriation therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S01637 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01637-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1637

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to awarding grants to
          municipalities for capital improvement projects; and making an  appro-
          priation therefor

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 54 of the state  finance  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph w to read as follows:
     3    w. Local government capital improvement grant program. (i) (1) For the
     4  purposes  of  this  paragraph, "municipality" and "municipalities" shall
     5  mean any city, town or village that has a population of less than  seven
     6  thousand five hundred.
     7    (2)  For  the  purposes  of this paragraph, "total expenditures" shall
     8  mean the total expenditures for a municipality as reported to the  state
     9  comptroller.
    10    (3) For the purposes of this paragraph, "capital improvement projects"
    11  shall mean any non-transportation related capital improvement project on
    12  property  owned  by  a municipality that has a total cost of one hundred
    13  thousand dollars or higher and such project exceeds ten percent of  such
    14  municipality's total expenditures.
    15    (ii) Within the annual amounts appropriated therefor, the secretary of
    16  state may award matching grants to municipalities to cover costs associ-
    17  ated with capital improvement projects.
    18    (iii)  The maximum cumulative grant award for a local government capi-
    19  tal improvement grant  shall  not  exceed  two  hundred  fifty  thousand
    20  dollars.
    21    (iv)  Matching funds equal to at least fifty percent of the total cost
    22  of the capital improvement project  under  the  grant  approved  by  the
    23  department  of  state  shall  be  required to receive a local government
    24  capital improvement grant.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04896-01-5
        S. 1637                             2

     1    (v) Within one week of the receipt of an application,  the  department
     2  of  state shall review the application to ensure the applicant has filed
     3  the correct application, and to determine if any  required  sections  of
     4  the  application  contain  no  information.  Within  one business day of
     5  determining  an  applicant has filed an incorrect application, or deter-
     6  mining an application contains no information in a section  required  to
     7  contain  information,  the  department  shall  so  notify the applicant.
     8  Applicants shall be permitted to amend an application found to be  miss-
     9  ing information, and such application shall be reconsidered for approval
    10  if  it  is  amended  by  the  application  deadline. If an applicant has
    11  submitted an incorrect application, the applicant may submit the correct
    12  application to the appropriate program by the deadline for such  program
    13  for  consideration.  Under  no  circumstances shall this subparagraph be
    14  deemed to require the extension of any application deadline  established
    15  by  the  department,  nor  shall it obligate the department to conduct a
    16  substantive review of the contents of any  application  outside  of  the
    17  procedures established by the department for the purposes of maintaining
    18  the competitive integrity of the grant program.
    19    §  2. The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), or so much thereof
    20  as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department  of  state
    21  out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the cred-
    22  it of the local government capital improvement grant program, not other-
    23  wise  appropriated,  and  made immediately available, for the purpose of
    24  carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on
    25  the audit and warrant  of  the  comptroller  on  vouchers  certified  or
    26  approved  by  the  commissioner of education in the manner prescribed by
    27  law.
    28    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.