Bill Text: NY S05363 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts school districts from the requirements of smart growth.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-02 - referred to environmental conservation [S05363 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S05363-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5363 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 16, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sens. FLANAGAN, FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the state smart growth public infrastructure criteria THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6-0107 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as added by chapter 433 of the laws of 2010, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. In addition to meeting other criteria and requirements of law 5 governing approval, development, financing and state aid for the 6 construction of new or expanded public infrastructure or the recon- 7 struction thereof, no state infrastructure agency shall approve, under- 8 take, support or finance a public infrastructure project, including 9 providing grants, awards, loans or assistance programs, unless, to the 10 extent practicable, it is consistent with the relevant criteria speci- 11 fied in subdivision two of this section. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS 12 OF THIS SUBDIVISION OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE TO THE 13 CONTRARY, PROJECTS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, REPAIR OR 14 IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES OR EXISTING LIBRARY 15 FACILITIES, AND PROJECTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW OR EXPANDED PUBLIC 16 SCHOOL OR LIBRARY FACILITIES IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE 17 HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND INHABITANTS OR MORE, SHALL NOT BE DEEMED 18 PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS ARTI- 19 CLE. 20 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11073-01-3