Bill Text: NY S08503 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the veterans' services organization capital support program to provide funding to eligible entities for payment of the capital costs of construction, improvement, repairs, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of facilities owned by eligible entities, and for the acquisition of related equipment with a useful life of not less than ten years; appropriates a sum of $10,000,000 therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-06 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S08503 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08503-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8503

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 6, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to  establishing
          the veterans' services organization capital support program

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

     1    Section 1. The veterans' services law is amended by adding a new arti-
     2  cle 4 to read as follows:
     3                                   ARTICLE 4
     4           VETERANS' SERVICES ORGANIZATION CAPITAL SUPPORT PROGRAM

     5  Section 50. Definitions.
     6          51. Establishment and criteria.
     7          52. Eligible purposes.
     8    § 50. Definitions. For the purposes of  this  article,  the  following
     9  terms shall have the following meanings:
    10    1.  "Eligible  entity" means a veteran service organization as defined
    11  pursuant to Title 38 U.S. Code Section 5902 and that also  is  organized
    12  as  a  not-for-profit  organization  pursuant  to the Title 26 U.S. Code
    13  Section 501(c), which may include but shall not be limited to the Ameri-
    14  can Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans,  Para-
    15  lyzed  Veterans  of  America,  American Veterans and Vietnam Veterans of
    16  America.
    17    § 51. Establishment and criteria.  There  is  hereby  established  the
    18  veterans' services organization capital support program for the eligible
    19  purposes under section fifty-two of this article. The commissioner shall
    20  develop  criteria for the disbursement of funds authorized under section
    21  fifty-two of this article to an eligible entity.
    22    § 52. Eligible  purposes.  Within  amounts  specifically  appropriated
    23  therefore, the commissioner shall award grants not to exceed two hundred
    24  thousand  dollars  for  payment  of  the  capital costs of construction,
    25  improvement, repairs, rehabilitation, or  reconstruction  of  facilities
    26  owned  by eligible entities pursuant to this article, and for the acqui-
    27  sition of related equipment with a useful life  of  not  less  than  ten

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 8503                             2

     1  years.  Such  capital  costs  may  include, but shall not be limited to,
     2  engineering and design costs. No funds  authorized  under  this  section
     3  shall  be  used  as  a  required match or be considered a local share to
     4  other state programs or to leverage state aid or grants.
     5    §  2. The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000), or so much thereof
     6  as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of  veter-
     7  ans'  services  out  of  any moneys in the state treasury in the general
     8  fund to the  credit  of  the  veterans'  services  organization  capital
     9  support program, not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately avail-
    10  able,  for  the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such
    11  moneys shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the  comptroller  on
    12  vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner of veterans' services
    13  in the manner prescribed by law.
    14    § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    15  sion,  section  or  part  of  this act shall be adjudged by any court of
    16  competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
    17  impair,  or  invalidate  the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
    18  its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section
    19  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
    20  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
    21  the  legislature  that  this  act  would  have been enacted even if such
    22  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    23    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.