Bill Text: NY A11546 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the powers and duties of the dormitory authority and equipment loans for intellectual property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-08-30 - signed chap.452 [A11546 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A11546-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         11546
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 23, 2010
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gantt) --
         read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
         and Commissions
       AN  ACT  to  amend the public authorities law, in relation to the powers
         and duties of the dormitory authority; and   to  amend  the  New  York
         state  medical  care  facilities  finance  agency  act, in relation to
         equipment loans for intellectual property
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1676 of the public authorities law
    2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
    3    (H)  IT  SHALL  ALSO INCLUDE EQUIPMENT, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER
    4  INTANGIBLE PROPERTY,  INCLUDING  INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  AND  SOFTWARE,
    5  ELIGIBLE  FOR  TAX-EXEMPT  FINANCING  UNDER  THE  UNITED STATES INTERNAL
    6  REVENUE CODE.
    7    S 2. Subdivision 18 of section 3 of section 1 of chapter  392  of  the
    8  laws  of  1973,  constituting the New York state medical care facilities
    9  finance agency act, as amended by chapter 363 of the laws of  1998,  and
   10  the second undesignated paragraph as separately amended by section 11 of
   11  part  D  of  chapter  389  of  the  laws  of 1997, is amended to read as
   12  follows:
   13    18. "Equipment loan" shall mean a loan made by the agency  to  a  non-
   14  profit  hospital corporation, a county hospital, a municipal hospital, a
   15  New York state department of health facility, a state university of  New
   16  York  health care facility or a non-profit corporation providing a resi-
   17  dential health care facility, for the purpose of financing or  refinanc-
   18  ing  the  acquisition  through purchase or lease of equipment, including
   19  construction and rehabilitation related  to  the  installation  of  such
   20  equipment,  AND SHALL ALSO INCLUDE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER INTAN-
   21  GIBLE PROPERTY, INCLUDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE,  THAT  IS
   22  ELIGIBLE  FOR  TAX-EXEMPT  FINANCING  UNDER  THE  UNITED STATES INTERNAL
   23  REVENUE CODE.
   24    The term "equipment loan" shall also mean the financing  of  equipment
   25  acquisitions  by  the  purchase,  lease  or sublease of equipment by the
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  agency and the lease or sublease  of  such  equipment  to  a  non-profit
    2  hospital  corporation, a county hospital, a municipal hospital, a hospi-
    3  tal under the jurisdiction of the state university of  New  York,  or  a
    4  non-profit  corporation providing a residential health care facility for
    5  the purpose of providing for the acquisition of such equipment  and  for
    6  the  construction and rehabilitation related to the installation thereof
    7  AND SHALL ALSO INCLUDE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER INTANGIBLE PROPER-
    8  TY, INCLUDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE, THAT IS ELIGIBLE  FOR
    9  TAX-EXEMPT FINANCING UNDER THE UNITED STATES INTERNAL  REVENUE CODE.
   10    S  3.  Subdivision 1 of section 5-b of section 1 of chapter 392 of the
   11  laws of 1973, constituting the New York state  medical  care  facilities
   12  finance  agency  act,  as amended by chapter 363 of the laws of 1998, is
   13  amended to read as follows:
   14    1. The agency may make an equipment  loan  to  a  non-profit  hospital
   15  corporation,  a  county hospital, a municipal hospital, a New York state
   16  department of health facility, a state university  of  New  York  health
   17  care facility or a non-profit corporation providing a residential health
   18  care  facility,  upon terms and conditions not inconsistent with article
   19  twenty-eight of the public health law and this section.  The proceeds of
   20  such loan are to  be  used  substantially  to  finance  the  acquisition
   21  through  purchase or lease of equipment including construction and reha-
   22  bilitation related to the installation of such equipment OR THE ACQUISI-
   23  TION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER  INTANGIBLE  PROPERTY,  INCLUDING
   24  INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  AND  SOFTWARE,  THAT IS ELIGIBLE FOR TAX-EXEMPT
   25  FINANCING UNDER THE UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.
   26    S 4. Subdivision 1 of section 1679-b of the public authorities law, as
   27  added by chapter 516 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
   28    1. The dormitory authority may make an equipment loan to  any  private
   29  entity for the benefit of which the dormitory authority is authorized to
   30  issue  bonds  or  other  obligations  of  the dormitory authority.   The
   31  proceeds of such a loan are to be  used  substantially  to  finance  the
   32  acquisition   through   purchase   or   lease   of  equipment  including
   33  construction and rehabilitation related  to  the  installation  of  such
   34  equipment  OR THE ACQUISITION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER INTANGI-
   35  BLE PROPERTY, INCLUDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  AND  SOFTWARE,  THAT  IS
   36  ELIGIBLE  FOR  TAX-EXEMPT  FINANCING  UNDER  THE  UNITED STATES INTERNAL
   37  REVENUE CODE.  The dormitory authority may make an equipment loan by the
   38  purchase, lease or sublease of equipment by the dormitory authority  and
   39  the  lease  or sublease of such equipment to any such private entity for
   40  the purpose of providing for the acquisition of such equipment  and  the
   41  construction  and  rehabilitation related to the installation thereof OR
   42  PURSUANT TO AN INSTALLMENT PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
   43    S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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