Bill Text: NY S07802 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases consolidated local highway assistance payments for a period of ten years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-27 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07802 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07802-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7802
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 27, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to increasing  consolidated
          local highway assistance payments
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 8 of section 10-c of the high-
     2  way law, as added by chapter 56 of the laws of 1993, is amended to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (c)  [The]  Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph,
     5  the moneys appropriated or authorized in each fiscal  year  pursuant  to
     6  the  schedules  in  paragraphs  (a) and (b) of this subdivision shall be
     7  distributed in accordance with the procedures contained in  subdivisions
     8  three and four of this section. [The total of funds]
     9    (i) Except as further provided in this paragraph, total funds distrib-
    10  uted  in  accordance  with  the  procedures in subdivision three of this
    11  section shall equal one  hundred  forty-five  million  dollars  in  each
    12  fiscal  year.    The balance of funds shall be distributed in accordance
    13  with the procedures in subdivision four of this section.
    14    (ii) For fiscal years two thousand eighteen through two thousand twen-
    15  ty-seven the total of funds distributed in accordance  with  the  proce-
    16  dures  in  subdivision  three  of  this  section shall equal six hundred
    17  forty-five million dollars in each  such  fiscal  year.  Of  such  total
    18  amount,  five  hundred  million  dollars  shall  be  distributed only to
    19  cities, counties, towns and villages outside of the city of New York  in
    20  accordance  with  the applicable provisions of subdivision three of this
    21  section.
    22    For purposes of calculating distributions in accordance with  subdivi-
    23  sion  three  of  this section, the "funding level" shall be proportioned
    24  between amounts distributed pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b)  of  this
    25  subdivision.
    26    § 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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