Bill Text: NY A06159 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6159 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes public library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to apply for local government efficiency grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06159 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06159-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6159
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Libraries and Education Technology
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the  inclusion  of
          library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to
          apply for local government efficiency grants
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Clause 1 of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (o)  of  subdivi-
     2  sion  10 of section 54 of the state finance law, as amended by section 7
     3  of part GG of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    (1)  For  the  purposes  of  this paragraph, "municipality" shall mean
     6  counties, cities, towns, villages, special improvement  districts,  fire
     7  districts,  public  libraries,  association  libraries,  public  library
     8  systems as defined by section two hundred seventy-two of  the  education
     9  law,  water authorities, sewer authorities, regional planning and devel-
    10  opment boards, school districts, and boards of  cooperative  educational
    11  services; provided, however, that for the purposes of this definition, a
    12  board  of cooperative educational services shall be considered a munici-
    13  pality only in instances where such  board  of  cooperative  educational
    14  services  advances a joint application on behalf of school districts and
    15  other  municipalities  within  the  board  of  cooperative   educational
    16  services  region; provided, however, that any agreements with a board of
    17  cooperative educational services: shall not  generate  additional  state
    18  aid; shall be deemed not to be a part of the program, capital and admin-
    19  istrative  budgets  of the board of cooperative educational services for
    20  the purposes of computing charges upon component school districts pursu-
    21  ant to subparagraph seven of paragraph b of subdivision four of  section
    22  nineteen  hundred  fifty and subdivision one of section nineteen hundred
    23  fifty and subdivision one of section nineteen hundred fifty-one  of  the
    24  education law; and shall be deemed to be a cooperative municipal service
    25  for  purposes  of subparagraph two of paragraph d of subdivision four of
    26  section nineteen hundred fifty of the education law.
    27    § 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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