Bill Text: NY A08133 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to financing by and through the dormitory authority for the Reece School, the Reece School shall have full power and authority to assign and pledge to the dormitory authority, any and all public funds in an amount sufficient to make all payments required to be made by the Reece School to any lease, sublease or other agreement entered into between the Reece School and the dormitory authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - SIGNED CHAP.226 [A08133 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08133-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8133--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RODRIGUEZ  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to financing  by
          and through the dormitory authority for the Reece School; and to amend
          chapter  698  of  the laws of 1991 amending the public authorities law
          and the education law, relating to the construction and  financing  of
          facilities  by  the  dormitory  authority for private schools approved
          pursuant to article 89 of the education law, in relation to  including
          the Reece School, New York

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

     1    Section 1. The undesignated paragraph of paragraph (b) of  subdivision
     2  2 of section 1676 of the public authorities law, as added by chapter 465
     3  of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     4    The  Reece  School, for the financing or refinancing, or reimbursement
     5  of the costs of, the acquisition, design, construction,  reconstruction,
     6  rehabilitation,  improvement,  furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise
     7  providing for, additional floors or facilities for education and therapy
     8  at their facility located at twenty-five East One Hundred Fourth  Street
     9  in  the  city  of  New  York, to serve as a school for special education
    10  students; provided, however, that the aggregate sum of any bonds  issued
    11  for  such purpose shall not exceed [twenty] thirty-five million dollars.
    12  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Reece School shall  have
    13  full  power and authority to assign and pledge to the dormitory authori-
    14  ty, any and all public funds to be apportioned or otherwise made payable
    15  by the United States, any agency thereof, the state, any agency thereof,
    16  a political subdivision, as defined in section one hundred of the gener-
    17  al municipal law, any social services district in the state or any other

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13188-02-9

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     1  governmental entity  in  an  amount  sufficient  to  make  all  payments
     2  required  to be made by the Reece School to any lease, sublease or other
     3  agreement entered into  between  the  Reece  School  and  the  dormitory
     4  authority.  All  state  and  local  officers  are  hereby authorized and
     5  required to pay all such funds so assigned and pledged to the  dormitory
     6  authority  or,  upon  the  direction  of the dormitory authority, to any
     7  trustee of any dormitory authority bond or note issued,  pursuant  to  a
     8  certificate  filed with any such state or local officer by the dormitory
     9  authority pursuant to the provisions of this section.
    10    § 2. The undesignated paragraph of subdivision 1 of  section  1680  of
    11  the public authorities law, as added by chapter 465 of the laws of 2009,
    12  is amended to read as follows:
    13    The  Reece  School, for the financing or refinancing, or reimbursement
    14  of the costs of, the acquisition, design, construction,  reconstruction,
    15  rehabilitation,  improvement,  furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise
    16  providing for, additional floors or facilities for education and therapy
    17  at their facility located at twenty-five East One Hundred Fourth  Street
    18  in  the  city  of  New  York, to serve as a school for special education
    19  students; provided, however, that the aggregate sum of any bonds  issued
    20  for  such purpose shall not exceed [twenty] thirty-five million dollars.
    21  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Reece School shall  have
    22  full  power and authority to assign and pledge to the dormitory authori-
    23  ty, any and all public funds to be apportioned or otherwise made payable
    24  by the United States, any agency thereof, the state, any agency thereof,
    25  a political subdivision, as defined in section one hundred of the gener-
    26  al municipal law, any social services district in the state or any other
    27  governmental entity  in  an  amount  sufficient  to  make  all  payments
    28  required  to be made by the Reece School to any lease, sublease or other
    29  agreement entered into  between  the  Reece  School  and  the  dormitory
    30  authority.  All  state  and  local  officers  are  hereby authorized and
    31  required to pay all such funds so assigned and pledged to the  dormitory
    32  authority  or,  upon  the  direction  of the dormitory authority, to any
    33  trustee of any dormitory authority bond or note issued,  pursuant  to  a
    34  certificate  filed with any such state or local officer by the dormitory
    35  authority pursuant to the provisions of this section.
    36    § 3. Section 7 of chapter 698 of the laws of 1991 amending the  public
    37  authorities  law and the education law, relating to the construction and
    38  financing of facilities by the dormitory authority for  private  schools
    39  approved  pursuant  to  article  89  of the education law, as separately
    40  amended by chapters 28 and 471 of the laws of 2006, is amended  to  read
    41  as follows:
    42    §  7.  The  following private not-for-profit schools shall be eligible
    43  private not-for-profit schools for purposes of title 4 of article  8  of
    44  the  public  authorities law and, with respect to them, for the purposes
    45  of article 15-A of the executive law only, the dormitory authority shall
    46  be deemed a state agency as the term is used in such  article,  and  its
    47  contracts  for  design,  construction,  services  and materials shall be
    48  deemed state contracts within the meaning of that term as set  forth  in
    49  such article:
    50  Baker Hall, Lackawanna, New York
    51  The Children's Home of Kingston, New York, Kingston, New York
    52  Hawthorne Foundation, Inc., also known as, Hawthorne Country Day School,
    53  Hawthorne, New York and Hawthorne Country Day School -- Manhattan Annex
    54  Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial, Inc., Yonkers, New York
    55  Ketchum-Grande Memorial School, aka Ketchum-Grande School, aka The
    56  Charlton School, Burnt Hills, New York

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     1  The Leake and Watts Children's Home, (Incorporated), Yonkers, New York
     2  LaSalle School, Inc., also known as LaSalle School, Albany, New York
     3  Northeast Parent and Child Society, Inc., Schenectady, New York
     4  Our Lady of Victory Home, Lackawanna, New York
     5  The Reece School, the city of New York, New York
     6  Saint  Anne  Foundation, also known as Saint Anne Institute, Albany, New
     7  York
     8  The Summit School, also known as The Summit School, Inc.,  Upper  Nyack,
     9  New York.
    10    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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