Bill Text: NY S04053 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Includes public library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to apply for local government efficiency grants.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 15-8)

Status: (Passed) 2011-08-17 - SIGNED CHAP.470 [S04053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04053-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                         4053
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 15, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sens. FARLEY, OPPENHEIMER, DeFRANCISCO, GRIFFO, JOHNSON,
         KRUGER, LARKIN, MARCELLINO, MAZIARZ,  MONTGOMERY,  NOZZOLIO,  SAMPSON,
         SEWARD,  VALESKY,  ZELDIN  -- 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 the  inclusion  of
         library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to
         apply for local government efficiency grants
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Clause 1 of subparagraph (i) of paragraph o of  subdivision
    2  10  of  section  54 of the state finance law, as amended by section 7 of
    3  part GG of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
    4  follows:
    5    (1)  For  the  purposes  of  this paragraph, "municipality" shall mean
    6  counties, cities, towns, villages, special improvement  districts,  fire
    7  districts,  public  libraries,  association  libraries,  PUBLIC  LIBRARY
    8  SYSTEMS AS DEFINED BY SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO OF  THE  EDUCATION
    9  LAW,  water authorities, sewer authorities, regional planning and devel-
   10  opment boards, school districts, and boards of  cooperative  educational
   11  services; provided, however, that for the purposes of this definition, a
   12  board  of cooperative educational services shall be considered a munici-
   13  pality only in instances where such  board  of  cooperative  educational
   14  services  advances a joint application on behalf of school districts and
   15  other  municipalities  within  the  board  of  cooperative   educational
   16  services  region; provided, however, that any agreements with a board of
   17  cooperative educational services: shall not  generate  additional  state
   18  aid; shall be deemed not to be a part of the program, capital and admin-
   19  istrative  budgets  of the board of cooperative educational services for
   20  the purposes of computing charges upon component school districts pursu-
   21  ant to subparagraph seven of paragraph b of subdivision four of  section
   22  nineteen  hundred  fifty and subdivision one of section nineteen hundred
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09929-01-1
       S. 4053                             2
    1  fifty and subdivision one of section nineteen hundred fifty-one  of  the
    2  education law; and shall be deemed to be a cooperative municipal service
    3  for  purposes  of subparagraph two of paragraph d of subdivision four of
    4  section nineteen hundred fifty of the education law.
    5    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    6  have become a law.
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