Bill Text: NY S09130 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the use of funds and payments from the IOLA fund; provides that funds and payments shall not be used for any other purpose other than as stated in section 97-v of the state finance law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - referred to governmental operations [S09130 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09130-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9130--A

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 29, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sens. RYAN, MAY, MAYER, SALAZAR, THOMAS -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Finance  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the use  of  funds
          and payments from the IOLA fund

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph f of subdivision 3 of section 97-v of  the  state
     2  finance  law, as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1983, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    f. The board shall insure that grants  and  contracts  are  made  with
     5  not-for-profit providers of civil legal services for the poor to provide
     6  stable,  economical and high quality delivery of civil legal services to
     7  the poor throughout the state. Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law,
     8  rule  or  regulation  to  the  contrary, funds shall not be used for any
     9  other purpose other than as stated in this section.
    10    § 2. Paragraph h of subdivision 3 of section 97-v of the state finance
    11  law, as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read  as
    12  follows:
    13    h.  All  payments  from the IOLA fund shall be made by the state comp-
    14  troller upon certification and authorization of the board of trustees of
    15  the fund. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule  or  regulation  to
    16  the  contrary,  payments  shall  not be used for any other purpose other
    17  than as stated in this section.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    19  the date on which it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15305-02-4