Bill Text: NY S08460 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a municipal senior center capital support program in the office for the aging to assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the purchase of senior buses; directs the director of the office for the aging to develop an application and establish criteria for the disbursement of grants to eligible municipalities for the purpose of procuring senior buses; makes an appropriation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-31 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S08460 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08460-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8460

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to establishing  a  municipal
          senior  center  capital support program in the office for the aging to
          assist municipalities in accessing capital  funds  necessary  for  the
          purchase of senior buses; and making an appropriation therefor

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

     1    Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a  new  section  226  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  226.  Municipal  senior center capital support program. 1. There is
     4  hereby created within the office for the aging a municipal senior center
     5  capital support program to assist  municipalities  in  the  purchase  of
     6  vehicles  for  the transportation of senior citizens residing within the
     7  boundaries of the municipality to qualifying events as determined by the
     8  director.
     9    2.  Within amounts specifically appropriated therefore,  the  director
    10  shall  award  grants  to  a  municipality in an amount not to exceed one
    11  hundred thousand dollars per municipality for the acquisition  of  buses
    12  or  other  means  of transportation related equipment for the purpose of
    13  transportation of senior citizens.   Such buses and/or  equipment  shall
    14  have a useful life of not less than five years.
    15    3.  No  funds  authorized under this section may be used as a required
    16  match or be considered a local share to any other state  program  or  to
    17  leverage state aid or grants.
    18    4. (a) The director of the state office for the aging shall develop an
    19  application  for  use by eligible municipalities to apply for a grant, a
    20  list  of  approved  transportation  equipment,  and  criteria  for   the
    21  disbursement of funds authorized to an eligible municipality.
    22    (b)  The  director shall promulgate rules and regulations as necessary
    23  to carry out the provisions of this section.
    24    5. For the purposes of this section, "municipality" means a  municipal
    25  corporation as defined pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-n of the
    26  general municipal law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14030-01-4
        S. 8460                             2

     1    § 2. The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000), or so much thereof
     2  as  may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the state office for the
     3  aging out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general  fund,  not
     4  otherwise  appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose
     5  of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable
     6  on  the  audit  and  warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
     7  approved by the director of the state office for the aging in the manner
     8  prescribed by law.
     9    § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    10  sion, section or part of this act shall be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
    11  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
    12  impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
    13  its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
    14  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
    15  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
    16  the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
    17  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    18    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.