Bill Text: NY S04843 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes payment of additional state aid for certain state-leased or state-owned lands.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04843 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S04843-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4843

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  FAHY  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public lands law,  in  relation  to  certain  state-
          leased or state-owned lands

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

     1    Section 1. Section 19-a of the public lands law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 2-b to read as follows:
     3    2-b. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the  contra-
     4  ry, in addition to state aid otherwise payable pursuant to this section,
     5  there  shall  be  payable to any city located in a county in which there
     6  has been constructed a state office building project  known  as  the  W.
     7  Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus (more specifically identi-
     8  fied  on  the  assessment  roll  of  such city as section, lot and block
     9  numbers 53.00-1-2 and 53.00-1-9, respectively), state aid payable  annu-
    10  ally,  in  an  amount  equal  to 1.75 percent of such aggregate assessed
    11  values of such state office building project as it appeared on  the  two
    12  thousand nine final assessment roll of such city.
    13    (2)  Such payments shall be for city purposes only, and shall begin on
    14  June first, two thousand twenty-five and shall be payable for  a  period
    15  of  ten  years.  For  greater certainty, such city's assessments for the
    16  properties described in paragraph one of this subdivision are to  remain
    17  at  such  two  thousand  nine  total  assessed  values, i.e. six hundred
    18  sixty-three million nine hundred fifty thousand nine hundred dollars and
    19  ten million four hundred nineteen thousand six hundred dollars,  respec-
    20  tively,  throughout  such  ten  year  period,  provided, however, if any
    21  portion of the property is sold by the state of  New  York  during  this
    22  period,  then  the  sale  price  of such sale shall be deducted from its
    23  appropriate above referenced total assessed value on the next succeeding
    24  assessment roll, and such reduced total assessed value shall become  the
    25  new  basis for determining the annual payment for that and each succeed-
    26  ing year thereafter.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09553-01-5
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