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
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                                           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 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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04055-01-9

        S. 277                              2

     1  a disaster as defined in paragraph a of subdivision two of section twen-
     2  ty of the executive law, repair and maintenance of infrastructure, annu-
     3  al growth in tax receipts, including personal income, business and other
     4  taxes,  prepayment  of  debt  service  and other expenses, or such other
     5  factors that the director may determine].
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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