Bill Text: NY S00909 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Restores the authorized reimbursement rate paid to governmental entities for enforcement of navigation laws to 75% of authorized expenditures.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00909 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00909-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         909--C
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. ORTT, CARLUCCI, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, HELM-
          ING, MURPHY, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE -- read twice and  ordered  printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs,
          Tourism,  Parks and Recreation -- reported favorably from said commit-
          tee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee  --  recommitted to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tour-
          ism, Parks and Recreation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said  commit-
          tee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee
        AN ACT to amend the  navigation  law,  in  relation  to  the  authorized
          reimbursement  rate paid to governmental entities for local navigation
          enforcement expenditures
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 79-b of the navigation law, as
     2  amended by section 1 of part D of chapter 109 of the laws  of  2010,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  The  amount  of state aid to be allocated to eligible governmental
     5  entities pursuant to this article shall be determined by the commission-
     6  er  as  hereinafter  provided.  The  commissioner  shall  determine  the
     7  percentage proportion which the authorized expenditures of each individ-
     8  ual  entity, not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars for each county
     9  including municipalities therein, shall bear  to  the  total  authorized
    10  expenditures  of  all entities. Such percentage proportion shall then be
    11  applied against an amount equal to one-half of the total of  the  amount
    12  received by the state in each preceding program year in vessel registra-
    13  tion  fees  as  provided  in section twenty-two hundred fifty-one of the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04589-06-8
        S. 909--C                           2
     1  vehicle and traffic law, less no more than thirty  percent,  subject  to
     2  appropriation, which may be used by the commissioner and the commission-
     3  er  of motor vehicles for administrative costs of the program, including
     4  training and equipment, and by the department of environmental conserva-
     5  tion,  the division of state police and other state agencies, subject to
     6  the approval of the commissioner, for the purposes of this article, plus
     7  the entire amount received  pursuant  to  subdivision  nine  of  section
     8  forty-four  of this chapter. The amount thus determined shall constitute
     9  the maximum amount of state aid to which each such entity shall be enti-
    10  tled; provided, however, that [no entity shall receive] state aid  shall
    11  be  provided in an amount [in excess] of [fifty] seventy-five percent of
    12  its authorized expenditures as approved by  the  commissioner  for  such
    13  program  year.  The  commissioner  shall  certify to the comptroller the
    14  amount thus determined for each eligible local  governmental  entity  as
    15  the amount of state aid to be apportioned to such eligible local govern-
    16  mental  entity.    The  allocation  of  state aid to any county, town or
    17  village within the Lake George park shall not be reduced because of  the
    18  allocation  of  state  aid  to  the  Lake George park commission. Of the
    19  remaining funds received by the state for the registration of vessels as
    20  provided in section twenty-two hundred  fifty-one  of  the  vehicle  and
    21  traffic  law,  no  less  than six percent shall be made available to the
    22  commissioner for the expenses of the office in providing navigation  law
    23  enforcement training and administering the provisions of this section.
    24    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    25  the date on which it shall have become a law.