Bill Text: NY A09064 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes the local share requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-18 - referred to ways and means [A09064 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09064-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9064
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 18, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means
        AN  ACT  to  amend the state finance law, in relation to the local share
          requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile  jurisdic-
          tion
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 54-m of the state finance law, as added by  section
     2  104 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    § 54-m. Local share requirements associated with increasing the age of
     5  juvenile  jurisdiction  above  fifteen years of age. Notwithstanding any
     6  other provision of law to the contrary, counties and  the  city  of  New
     7  York  shall  not  be  required  to  contribute a local share of eligible
     8  expenditures that would not have been incurred absent the provisions  of
     9  [a]  chapter fifty-nine of the laws of two thousand seventeen that added
    10  this section [unless the most recent budget adopted by a county that  is
    11  subject  to  the  provisions of section three-c of the general municipal
    12  law exceeded the tax levy limit prescribed in such section or the  local
    13  government  is  not  subject to the provisions of section three-c of the
    14  general municipal law; provided, however, that the state budget director
    15  shall be authorized to waive any local share of expenditures  associated
    16  with  a chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that increased the
    17  age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age, upon a  showing
    18  of  financial hardship by a county or the city of New York upon applica-
    19  tion in the form and manner prescribed by the division of the budget. In
    20  evaluating an application for a financial hardship  waiver,  the  budget
    21  director  shall consider the incremental cost to the locality related to
    22  increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction, changes in state or federal
    23  aid payments, and other extraordinary costs, including the occurrence of
    24  a disaster as defined in paragraph a of subdivision two of section twen-
    25  ty of the executive law, repair and maintenance of infrastructure, annu-
    26  al growth in tax receipts, including personal income, business and other

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  taxes, prepayment of debt service and  other  expenses,  or  such  other
     2  factors that the director may determine].
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the same date as section 104 of
     4  part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017 takes effect.