Bill Text: NY S06905 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6905 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes the New York State water infrastructure improvement act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-04 - REFERRED TO INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT [S06905 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06905-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6905
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Infrastructure and Capital
          Investment
        AN ACT establishing the New York State water infrastructure  improvement
          act of 2016
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act may be known and be cited as the "New  York  State
     2  water infrastructure improvement act of 2016".
     3    § 2. For purposes of this act:
     4    1. "water quality infrastructure project" shall mean "sewage treatment
     5  works"  as  defined in section 17-1903 of the environmental conservation
     6  law or "eligible project" as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (e)
     7  of subdivision 4 of section 1160 of the public health law.
     8    2. "construction" shall mean:
     9    (a) for sewage treatment works, the same as defined in section 17-1903
    10  of the environmental conservation law; and
    11    (b) for eligible projects, the same meaning as defined in section 1160
    12  of the public health law.
    13    3. "municipality" shall mean any county, city, town, village, district
    14  corporation, county or town improvement district, school district, Indi-
    15  an nation or tribe recognized by the state or the United States  with  a
    16  reservation  wholly  or  partly within the boundaries of New York state,
    17  any public benefit corporation or public authority established  pursuant
    18  to  the  laws  of  New  York  or  any  agency of New York state which is
    19  empowered to  construct  and  operate  a  water  quality  infrastructure
    20  project, or any two or more of the foregoing which are acting jointly in
    21  connection with a water quality infrastructure project.
    22    §  3.  1. The environmental facilities corporation shall undertake and
    23  provide state financial assistance payments, from funds appropriated for
    24  such purpose, to municipalities in support of water quality  infrastruc-
    25  ture  projects provided, however, in any such year that funds are appro-
    26  priated for such purpose, no municipality shall receive more  than  five
    27  million  dollars  of appropriated funds. Such state financial assistance
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14455-01-6