Bill Text: NY S04560 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes language requiring the state from moving public safety surcharge funds into the state general fund; increases from seventy-five million dollars to one million dollars available for grants or reimbursements to counties for the development, consolidation, or operation of public safety communications systems or networks designed to support statewide interoperable communications for first responders.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04560 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04560-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4560

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Budget and Revenue

        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the public safety surcharge;
          and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 186-f of the tax
     2  law is REPEALED.
     3    § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 186-f of the  tax  law,
     4  as amended by section 38 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    (c)  Up to the sum of [seventy-five] one hundred million dollars annu-
     7  ally may be used for the provision of grants or reimbursements to  coun-
     8  ties  for  the development, consolidation, or operation of public safety
     9  communications systems or networks designed to support statewide  inter-
    10  operable communications for first responders, to be distributed pursuant
    11  to  standards  and  guidelines  issued  by  the state. Annual grants may
    12  consider costs borne by a municipality related to the issuance of  local
    13  public  safety  communications  bonds  pursuant  to  section twenty-four
    14  hundred thirty-two of the public authorities law, when the  municipality
    15  has  qualified  as  an approved participant in a statewide interoperable
    16  communications system under the standards and guidelines issued  by  the
    17  state,  and maintains compliance with such standards and guidelines. The
    18  grant amount will be prescribed pursuant to an agreement with the  muni-
    19  cipality,  and may not exceed thirty percent of the annual cost borne by
    20  the municipality in relation to such bonds;
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09330-01-3