Bill Text: NY A02709 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Restores the authorized reimbursement rate paid to governmental entities for enforcement of navigation laws to 75% of authorized expenditures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-15 - print number 2709c [A02709 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02709-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2709--C
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
          to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
          sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended  and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said
          committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommit-
          ted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  navigation  law,  in relation to the authorized
          reimbursement rate paid to governmental entities for local  navigation
          enforcement expenditures
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 79-b of  the  navigation  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  1 of part D of chapter 109 of the laws of 2010, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3. The amount of state aid to be allocated  to  eligible  governmental
     5  entities pursuant to this article shall be determined by the commission-
     6  er  as  hereinafter  provided.  The  commissioner  shall  determine  the
     7  percentage proportion which the authorized expenditures of each individ-
     8  ual entity, not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars for each  county
     9  including  municipalities  therein,  shall  bear to the total authorized
    10  expenditures of all entities. Such percentage proportion shall  then  be
    11  applied  against  an amount equal to one-half of the total of the amount
    12  received by the state in each preceding program year in vessel registra-
    13  tion fees as provided in section twenty-two  hundred  fifty-one  of  the
    14  vehicle  and  traffic  law, less no more than thirty percent, subject to
    15  appropriation, which may be used by the commissioner and the commission-
    16  er of motor vehicles for administrative costs of the program,  including
    17  training and equipment, and by the department of environmental conserva-
    18  tion,  the division of state police and other state agencies, subject to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the approval of the commissioner, for the purposes of this article, plus
     2  the entire amount received  pursuant  to  subdivision  nine  of  section
     3  forty-four  of this chapter. The amount thus determined shall constitute
     4  the maximum amount of state aid to which each such entity shall be enti-
     5  tled;  provided, however, that [no entity shall receive] state aid shall
     6  be provided in an amount [in excess] of [fifty] seventy-five percent  of
     7  its  authorized  expenditures  as  approved by the commissioner for such
     8  program year. The commissioner shall  certify  to  the  comptroller  the
     9  amount  thus  determined  for each eligible local governmental entity as
    10  the amount of state aid to be apportioned to such eligible local govern-
    11  mental entity.   The allocation of state aid  to  any  county,  town  or
    12  village  within the Lake George park shall not be reduced because of the
    13  allocation of state aid to the  Lake  George  park  commission.  Of  the
    14  remaining funds received by the state for the registration of vessels as
    15  provided  in  section  twenty-two  hundred  fifty-one of the vehicle and
    16  traffic law, no less than six percent shall be  made  available  to  the
    17  commissioner  for the expenses of the office in providing navigation law
    18  enforcement training and administering the provisions of this section.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    20  the date on which it shall have become a law.