Bill Text: NY A05469 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts school districts from the requirements of smart growth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A05469 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05469-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5469
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          state smart growth public infrastructure criteria
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   Subdivision 1 of  section  6-0107  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  433  of the laws of 2010, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. In addition to meeting  other  criteria  and  requirements  of  law
     5  governing  approval,  development,  financing  and  state  aid  for  the
     6  construction of new or expanded  public  infrastructure  or  the  recon-
     7  struction  thereof, no state infrastructure agency shall approve, under-
     8  take, support or finance  a  public  infrastructure  project,  including
     9  providing  grants,  awards, loans or assistance programs, unless, to the
    10  extent practicable, it is consistent with the relevant  criteria  speci-
    11  fied in subdivision two of this section.  Notwithstanding the provisions
    12  of  this  subdivision  or  any  other  provision  of this article to the
    13  contrary,  projects  for  the  reconstruction,  renovation,  repair   or
    14  improvement  of  existing  public  school facilities or existing library
    15  facilities, and projects for the construction of new or expanded  public
    16  school  or  library  facilities  in  cities  having  a population of one
    17  hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more, shall  not  be  deemed
    18  public infrastructure projects subject to the requirements of this arti-
    19  cle.
    20    § 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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