Bill Text: NY A07064 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes regional arts, cultural affairs, and parks grants for ten regions throughout the state for capital projects.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A07064 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07064-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7064
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
        AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in  relation  to  the
          establishment of regional arts, cultural affairs, and parks grants
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The arts and cultural affairs law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new article 6 to read as follows:
     3                                  ARTICLE 6
     4              REGIONAL ARTS, CULTURAL AFFAIRS, AND PARKS GRANTS
     5  Section 6.01. Definitions.
     6          6.03. Establishment   of   arts,  cultural  affairs,  and  parks
     7                  regions.
     8          6.05. Regional arts, cultural  affairs,  and  parks  competitive
     9                  grants.
    10    §  6.01.  Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
    11  terms shall have the following meanings:
    12    1. "Regions" shall mean the arts, cultural affairs, and parks  regions
    13  established in section 6.03 of this article.
    14    2.  "Regional  councils"  shall  mean  the councils which issue grants
    15  under section 6.05 of this article.
    16    § 6.03. Establishment of arts, cultural affairs,  and  parks  regions.
    17  Ten arts, cultural affairs, and parks regions shall be established with-
    18  in the state, one for each of the following regions:
    19    1. Long Island (which consists of Suffolk and Nassau counties);
    20    2.  the  city  of New York (which consists of Bronx, New York, Queens,
    21  Kings, and Richmond counties);
    22    3. the Mid-Hudson region (which consists of Sullivan,  Ulster,  Dutch-
    23  ess, Orange, Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland counties);
    24    4.  the  Southern tier (which consists of Steuben, Schuyler, Tompkins,
    25  Chemung, Tioga, Chenango, Broome, and Delaware counties);
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    5. the Capital region (which consists of Warren, Washington, Saratoga,
     2  Schenectady, Rensselaer, Albany, Columbia, and Greene counties);
     3    6.  the  Mohawk  valley  (which  consists of Oneida, Herkimer, Fulton,
     4  Montgomery, Otsego, and Schoharie counties);
     5    7. the  North  country  (which  consists  of  Clinton,  Franklin,  St.
     6  Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Hamilton, and Essex counties);
     7    8.  the  Central  region  (which consists of Oswego, Cayuga, Onondaga,
     8  Madison, and Cortland counties);
     9    9. the Finger Lakes region (which consists of Orleans, Monroe,  Wayne,
    10  Genesee, Wyoming, Livingston, Ontario, Seneca, and Yates counties); and
    11    10.  the  Western region (which consists of Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua,
    12  Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties).
    13    § 6.05. Regional arts, cultural affairs, and parks competitive grants.
    14  1. The governor shall, in each region, establish  a  council  who  shall
    15  issue competitive grants within the region. The members of each regional
    16  council  shall  be local experts and stakeholders from arts and cultural
    17  affairs organizations and parks organizations within  the  region.  Each
    18  regional  council shall have seven total members appointed to such coun-
    19  cil. Five members of each regional council shall  be  appointed  by  the
    20  governor  and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor, one member of
    21  each regional council shall be appointed by the speaker of the  assembly
    22  and  serve  at  the  pleasure  of  the  assembly, and one member of each
    23  regional council shall be appointed by the temporary  president  of  the
    24  senate  and  serve  at  the  pleasure  of the senate. All members of the
    25  regional councils shall be subject to the provisions of  section  seven-
    26  ty-three-a of the public officers law.
    27    2. The regional councils shall, with approval from the governor, issue
    28  competitive  grants to arts and cultural affairs organizations and parks
    29  organizations within their region for capital projects such that:
    30    (a) in the city of New York region, an equal amount of grant money  is
    31  issued to organizations with operating budgets of ten million dollars or
    32  more  as  is issued to organizations with operating budgets of less than
    33  ten million dollars; and
    34    (b) in all other regions, an equal amount of grant money is issued  to
    35  organizations  with operating budgets of five million dollars or more as
    36  is issued to organizations with operating  budgets  of  less  than  five
    37  million dollars.
    38    3.  The  regional  councils  shall  determine which organization shall
    39  receive a competitive grant based on criteria established by the  gover-
    40  nor for such purpose.
    41    4.  No  regional  council shall issue a grant to an organization which
    42  has received a grant under this article within the prior three years.
    43    5. No regional council shall issue grants  totaling  more  than  fifty
    44  percent of such council's grant money issued in a calendar year to parks
    45  organizations.
    46    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.