Bill Text: NY A01414 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1414 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Authorizes cooperative library systems to apply for funds under the local government efficiency grant program.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-10 - print number 1414a [A01414 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 1461                                                  A. 1414
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 7, 2011
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       IN  SENATE  -- Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, LARKIN, MAZIARZ, RANZENHOFER
         -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
         the Committee on Finance
       IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Spon-
         sored by -- M. of A. RAIA -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
         on Libraries and Education Technology
       AN  ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to authorizing coop-
         erative library systems to apply for funds under the local  government
         efficiency grant program municipal merger incentives
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph p of subdivision 10 of section 54  of  the  state
    2  finance  law,  as  amended  by section 6 of part GG of chapter 56 of the
    3  laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
    4    p. Local government efficiency grant program municipal  merger  incen-
    5  tives.  For  the purposes of this paragraph, "municipalities" shall mean
    6  cities with a population less than one million,  towns  [and],  villages
    7  AND  COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEMS. Within the annual amounts appropriated
    8  therefor, surviving municipalities following a merger, consolidation  or
    9  dissolution occurring on or after the state fiscal year commencing April
   10  first,  two  thousand  seven  may be awarded additional aid in the state
   11  fiscal year following such merger, consolidation or dissolution equal to
   12  fifteen percent of the combined amount of real property taxes levied  by
   13  all  of the municipalities participating in the merger, consolidation or
   14  dissolution in the local fiscal year prior to the local fiscal  year  in
   15  which   such  merger,  consolidation  or  dissolution  took  effect.  In
   16  instances of the dissolution of a village located in more than one town,
   17  such additional aid shall equal the sum of fifteen percent of  the  real
   18  property  taxes  levied by such village in the village fiscal year prior
   19  to the village fiscal year in which such dissolution  took  effect  plus
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 1461                             2                            A. 1414
    1  fifteen  percent  of the average amount of real property taxes levied by
    2  the towns in which the village was located in the town fiscal year prior
    3  to the town fiscal year in which such dissolution took effect, and shall
    4  be  divided  among  such towns based on the percentage of such village's
    5  population that resided in each such town as of the most recent  federal
    6  decennial  census.  Such additional aid shall be apportioned and paid to
    7  the chief fiscal officer of each consolidated or merged municipality  on
    8  audit and warrant of the state comptroller out of moneys appropriated by
    9  the  legislature  for such purpose to the credit of the local assistance
   10  fund in the general fund of the state treasury in the same "on or before
   11  month and day" manner as the municipality's base  level  grant  is  paid
   12  pursuant  to  subparagraph  (i)  of paragraph i of this subdivision. Any
   13  municipality receiving a merger incentive award pursuant to  this  para-
   14  graph shall use such aid only for general municipal purposes. In no case
   15  shall  the  additional aid pursuant to this paragraph exceed one million
   16  dollars. Such additional aid shall in subsequent state fiscal  years  be
   17  considered  prior  year aid for the purposes of determining such merged,
   18  consolidated or surviving municipality's base level  grant  pursuant  to
   19  paragraph b of this subdivision.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.