Bill Text: NY A07680 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the allocation of the funds from wireless communications surcharges imposed by a county containing a city having a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand or more persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - enacting clause stricken [A07680 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07680-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7680
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. MAYER, PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the allocation of the  funds
          from wireless communications surcharges imposed by a county containing
          a city having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more
          persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 186-g of the tax law, as added  by
     2  section  3  of part EEE of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    9. (a) All surcharge monies remitted to the  commissioner  under  this
     5  section  shall  be  expended  only upon authorization of the legislative
     6  body of a city or county that imposes the  surcharges  pursuant  to  the
     7  authority  of  subdivision  two of this section, and only for payment of
     8  system costs, eligible wireless 911 service costs, or other costs  asso-
     9  ciated  with  the  administration,  design,  installation, construction,
    10  operation, or maintenance of public safety communications networks or  a
    11  system  to  provide  enhanced  wireless 911 service serving such city or
    12  county, including, but not limited to, hardware, software,  consultants,
    13  financing  and  other acquisition costs. Such city or county shall sepa-
    14  rately account for and keep adequate books and records of the amount and
    15  object or purpose of all expenditures of all such monies. If, at the end
    16  of any fiscal year, the total amount of  all  such  monies  exceeds  the
    17  amount necessary for payment of the above mentioned costs in such fiscal
    18  year,  such excess shall be reserved and carried over for the payment of
    19  those costs in the following fiscal year.
    20    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of  this  subdivi-
    21  sion,  a  county that includes a city having a population of one hundred
    22  twenty-five thousand or more people shall distribute a  portion  of  the
    23  surcharge funds allocated to the county to such city for the purposes of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11326-01-7
        A. 7680                             2
     1  the  payment  of  costs related to maintaining such city's public safety
     2  communications network. The amount of such portion shall  be  calculated
     3  by  determining  what the percentage of the actual, annual number of 911
     4  calls  handled by such city is to the actual, annual number of 911 calls
     5  handled by the county, and allocating the funding accordingly.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.