Bill Text: NY A09296 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the public safety communications surcharge and amends the distributions of monies collected pursuant to such surcharge and provides for the repeal of certain provisions relating thereto.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-16 - referred to ways and means [A09296 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09296-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9296
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means
        AN  ACT  to amend the tax law, in relation to the public safety communi-
          cations surcharge and repealing certain provisions of such law  relat-
          ing thereto
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 186-f of the tax law  is  REPEALED
     2  and a new subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
     3    6.  Distribution.  The  monies collected from the surcharge imposed by
     4  this section shall be distributed in the following manner:
     5    (a) Fifty-eight  and  three-tenths  percent  shall  be  used  for  the
     6  provision  of  grants or reimbursements to counties for the development,
     7  consolidation, or operation of public safety communications  systems  or
     8  networks  designed to support statewide interoperable communications for
     9  first responders, including  Next  Generation  911,  to  be  distributed
    10  pursuant  to standards and guidelines issued by the state. Annual grants
    11  may consider costs borne by a municipality related to  the  issuance  of
    12  local public safety communications bonds pursuant to section twenty-four
    13  hundred  thirty-two of the public authorities law, when the municipality
    14  has qualified as an approved participant in  a  statewide  interoperable
    15  communications  system  under the standards and guidelines issued by the
    16  state, and maintains compliance with such standards and guidelines.  The
    17  grant  amount will be prescribed pursuant to an agreement with the muni-
    18  cipality, and may not exceed thirty percent of the annual cost borne  by
    19  the municipality in relation to such bonds; and
    20    (b)  Forty-one  and seven-tenths percent shall be jointly apportioned,
    21  pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the  commissioner,  to:
    22  (i) the state police, (ii) the New York state emergency services revolv-
    23  ing loan fund, (iii) provide for the costs of debt service for bonds and
    24  notes  issued  to  finance  expedited deployment funding pursuant to the
    25  provisions of section three hundred thirty-three of the county  law  and
    26  section sixteen hundred eighty-nine-h of the public authorities law, and
    27  (iv)  provide  for services and expenses that support the operations and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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