Bill Text: NY S00277 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Removes the local share requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S00277 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00277-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 277 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance 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 is11subject to the provisions of section three-c of the general municipal12law exceeded the tax levy limit prescribed in such section or the local13government is not subject to the provisions of section three-c of the14general municipal law; provided, however, that the state budget director15shall be authorized to waive any local share of expenditures associated16with a chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that increased the17age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age, upon a showing18of financial hardship by a county or the city of New York upon applica-19tion in the form and manner prescribed by the division of the budget. In20evaluating an application for a financial hardship waiver, the budget21director shall consider the incremental cost to the locality related to22increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction, changes in state or federal23aid payments, and other extraordinary costs, including the occurrence ofEXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04055-01-9S. 277 2 1a disaster as defined in paragraph a of subdivision two of section twen-2ty of the executive law, repair and maintenance of infrastructure, annu-3al growth in tax receipts, including personal income, business and other4taxes, prepayment of debt service and other expenses, or such other5factors that the director may determine]. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.