Bill Text: NY S02963 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


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 6-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S02963 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02963-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2963
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 30, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
         ment Operations
       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  Subdivision 6 of section 186-f of the tax law is REPEALED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
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02813-01-5
       S. 2963                             2
    1  NOTES ISSUED TO FINANCE EXPEDITED DEPLOYMENT  FUNDING  PURSUANT  TO  THE
    2  PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE OF THE COUNTY LAW AND
    3  SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE-H OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES LAW, AND
    4  (IV)  PROVIDE  FOR SERVICES AND EXPENSES THAT SUPPORT THE OPERATIONS AND
    5  MISSION OF THE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY  SERVICES  AS
    6  APPROPRIATED BY THE LEGISLATURE.
    7    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    8  the date on which it shall have become a law;  provided,  however,  that
    9  effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
   10  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
   11  tive  date  is  authorized  and  directed to be made and completed on or
   12  before such effective date.
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