Bill Text: NY A09550 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing a veterans legal services assistance fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-24 - referred to veterans' affairs [A09550 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09550-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9550

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ASHBY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          veterans legal services assistance fund

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

     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  98-d to read as follows:
     3    § 98-d. Veterans  legal  services  assistance fund. 1. There is hereby
     4  established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comptroller  and  the
     5  commissioner  of  the  department  of  taxation and finance a fund to be
     6  known as the veterans legal services assistance fund.
     7    2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated for the  purpose
     8  of  such  fund, all other moneys required to be paid into or credited to
     9  such fund, and all moneys received by such fund or donated to it.
    10    3. Moneys of the veterans legal  services  assistance  fund  shall  be
    11  solely  available,  following  appropriation  by  the legislature and in
    12  accordance with law to assist in the provision of and the  reimbursement
    13  of  expenses  incurred  by  not-for-profit  providers or their employees
    14  relating to providing criminal or civil legal services for  veterans  in
    15  New York state.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14199-01-9