Bill Text: NY A08134 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the New York state rural mobile communications fund to provide grants for the purpose of increasing cellular service in low- to no-coverage areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-17 - motion to discharge lost [A08134 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08134-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8134

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SMULLEN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the tax law and the state finance law,  in  relation  to
          establishing the New York state rural mobile communications fund

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 186-f of the  tax
     2  law,  as added by section 3 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) forty-one and seven-tenths of the revenues collected and  received
     5  under  this section into the [state general] New York state rural mobile
     6  communications fund established pursuant to  section  ninety-nine-rr  of
     7  the state finance law; and
     8    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-rr to
     9  read as follows:
    10    §  99-rr.  New York state rural mobile communications fund. 1.  Estab-
    11  lishment of the fund. There is hereby established in the  joint  custody
    12  of  the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance a
    13  special fund to be known as the New York  state  rural  mobile  communi-
    14  cations  fund.  Moneys  in  this  account shall be kept separate and not
    15  commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the comptroller.
    16    2. Source of funds. The sum equal to the amount  identified  in  para-
    17  graph (a) of subdivision five of section one hundred eighty-six-f of the
    18  tax law shall be credited to the fund.
    19    3.  Use of funds. Such moneys shall be used for the purpose of provid-
    20  ing rural areas, as defined in subdivision eight of section two  hundred
    21  sixty  of  the agriculture and markets law, in the state with grants for
    22  the purpose of increasing cellular service in low- to no-coverage areas.
    23  Priority shall be given to applicants in rural areas  who  can  identify
    24  public safety concerns resulting from lack of cellular service.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13377-01-3
        A. 8134                             2

     1    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     2  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
     3  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
     4  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
     5  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.