Bill Text: NY S01303 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the publication by the state of the receipt of unclaimed funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-21 - PRINT NUMBER 1303A [S01303 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S01303-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1303--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted  to
         the  Committee  on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the abandoned property law and the state technology law,
         in relation to unclaimed funds
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 1402 of the aban-
    2  doned property law is relettered paragraph (c) and a new  paragraph  (b)
    3  is added to read as follows:
    4    (B) IN ADDITION TO THE LIST REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVI-
    5  SION, EACH SEPTEMBER AND MARCH, THE STATE COMPTROLLER SHALL PUBLISH IN A
    6  NEWSPAPER,  AS PROVIDED BY SECTION ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED TEN OF THIS
    7  ARTICLE, A STATEMENT OF ABANDONED PROPERTY  PAID  TO  AND  HELD  BY  THE
    8  STATE,  FOR  THE  RESPECTIVE ANNUAL PERIODS JUNE FIRST, THROUGH NOVEMBER
    9  THIRTIETH AND DECEMBER FIRST, THROUGH MAY THIRTY-FIRST.  EACH AND  EVERY
   10  TIME THE COMPTROLLER PUBLISHES SUCH A STATEMENT, HE OR SHE SHALL INCLUDE
   11  A  NOTICE  THAT  READERS  MAY OBTAIN A LARGE PRINT COPY OF THE UNCLAIMED
   12  FUNDS LIST  BY  WRITING  THE  COMPTROLLER'S  OFFICE  OR  HAVE  A  SEARCH
   13  CONDUCTED  FOR  THEM  BY  CALLING  A DESIGNATED NUMBER. THIS NOTICE MUST
   14  APPEAR IN TYPEFACE AND FONT-SIZE  ESTABLISHED  BY  THE  NEW  YORK  STATE
   15  OFFICE  FOR  TECHNOLOGY  TO ASSIST THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND INCLUDE THE
   16  PHONE NUMBER AND MAILING ADDRESS TO THE NEW YORK  STATE  OFFICE  OF  THE
   17  STATE COMPTROLLER, OFFICE OF UNCLAIMED FUNDS.
   18    S  2.  Section  103 of the state technology law is amended by adding a
   19  new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03547-02-4
       S. 1303--A                          2
    1    22. TO CONSULT WITH THE COMMISSION ON THE  BLIND  AND  VISUALLY  HAND-
    2  ICAPPED TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS FOR TYPEFACE AND
    3  FONT SIZE TO ASSIST THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED.
    4    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    5  have become a law.