Bill Text: NY S09230 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the cost of maintenance and operation of veterans' service agencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S09230 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09230-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9230

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 7, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
          land Security and Military Affairs

        AN  ACT  to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to the cost of
          maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies

          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 16 of the veterans' services law
     2  is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. A local director shall designate the  location  of  the  local  and
     4  branch offices of the local veterans' service agency within [his or her]
     5  such director's jurisdiction, which offices shall be open during conven-
     6  ient  hours. The cost of maintenance and operation of a county veterans'
     7  service agency shall be a county charge and the cost of maintenance  and
     8  operation  of  a  city  veterans' service agency shall be a city charge,
     9  excepting that the state commissioner with the approval of the veterans'
    10  services commission shall allot and pay, from state moneys  made  avail-
    11  able  to  [him or her] the state commissioner for such purposes, to each
    12  county veterans' service agency and each city veterans' service  agency,
    13  an amount equal to [fifty per centum of its expenditures for maintenance
    14  and  operation  approved  by the state commissioner, provided that in no
    15  event shall the amount allotted and paid for such approved  expenditures
    16  incurred  in  any given year exceed (1) in the case of any county veter-
    17  ans' service agency in a county having a population of not more than one
    18  hundred thousand or in the case of any city veterans' service agency  in
    19  a  city  having  a population of not more than one hundred thousand, the
    20  sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, nor (2) in the case of  any  county
    21  veterans'  service  agency  in a county having a population in excess of
    22  one hundred thousand excluding the population of any city therein  which
    23  has  a  city  veterans'  service agency, the sum of twenty-five thousand
    24  dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars  for
    25  each  one  hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the population
    26  of the county in excess of one hundred thousand excluding the population
    27  of any city therein which has a city veterans' service agency,  nor  (3)

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 9230                             2

     1  in  the  case  of  any  city veterans' service agency in a city having a
     2  population in excess of one hundred thousand,  the  sum  of  twenty-five
     3  thousand  dollars,  and,  in  addition thereto, the sum of five thousand
     4  dollars  for each one hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the
     5  population of the city in excess of one  hundred  thousand.  Such  popu-
     6  lation  shall  be  certified  in  the same manner as provided by section
     7  fifty-four of the state finance law] one-half  of  one  percent  of  the
     8  previous  year's  geographic  distribution  of  veterans' administration
     9  expenditures for each county for maintenance and operations approved  by
    10  the state director.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.