Bill Text: NY A03263 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the everyone can play grant program which allows for grants up to $100,000 to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap accessible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to local governments [A03263 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03263-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3263

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN  ACT  to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
          everyone can play grant program

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  10 of section 54 of the state finance law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph v to read as follows:
     3    v. Everyone can play grant program. (i) When used in  this  paragraph,
     4  unless otherwise expressly stated:
     5    (1) "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, town, or village.
     6    (2) "Recreation facility" shall mean playgrounds, athletic fields, and
     7  recreation  centers,  together with necessary buildings, structures, and
     8  equipment.
     9    (3) "Handicap accessible  aspects"  shall  mean  playground  equipment
    10  approved  in  accordance  with  accessibility guidelines pursuant to the
    11  federal Americans with Disabilities Act of nineteen hundred  ninety,  as
    12  amended,  which  shall  include but not be limited to, playground struc-
    13  tures, swings, slides, climbers, and spring riders.
    14    (ii) Within the annual amounts appropriated therefor, the secretary of
    15  state may award competitive grants of up to one hundred thousand dollars
    16  to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap acces-
    17  sible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities.
    18    § 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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