Authorizes the state to acquire from the federal government the Franklin Delano Roosevelt campus of the department of veterans affairs Hudson Valley health care system at Montrose.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2724
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing the
state to acquire from the federal government the Franklin Delano
Roosevelt campus of the department of veterans affairs Hudson Valley
health care system at Montrose
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 403 of the public health law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. Notwithstanding any other inconsistent provisions of law, the
4 commissioner, with approval of the director of the budget and the direc-
5 tor of the division of veterans affairs, may acquire or contract to
6 acquire from the federal government by grant, purchase, condemnation or
7 otherwise, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt campus of the department of
8 veterans affairs Hudson Valley health care system at Montrose, except
9 those structures built or acquired by the federal government which are
10 being used for veterans' purposes, or any interest therein, subject, if
11 acquired by condemnation to the procedures set forth in the eminent
12 domain procedure law; provided that such properties be used by the state
13 for veterans' purposes. For the purposes of this subdivision, "veterans'
14 purposes" shall not encompass those property uses that are brought about
15 as a result of the enhanced use lease procedures set forth in sections
16 eighty-one hundred sixty-one through eighty-one hundred sixty-nine of
17 title thirty-eight of the United States code.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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