Bill Text: NY S05363 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5363
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 16, 2013
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       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