Establishes the everyone can play grant program which allows for grants up to $100,000 to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap accessible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
June 5, 2026
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jensen) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
everyone can play grant program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 54 of the state finance law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph w to read as follows:
3 w. Everyone can play grant program. (i) When used in this paragraph,
4 unless otherwise expressly stated:
5 (1) "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, town, or village.
6 (2) "Recreation facility" shall mean playgrounds, athletic fields, and
7 recreation centers, together with necessary buildings, structures, and
8 equipment.
9 (3) "Handicap accessible aspects" shall mean playground equipment
10 approved in accordance with accessibility guidelines pursuant to the
11 federal Americans with Disabilities Act of nineteen hundred ninety, as
12 amended, which shall include but not be limited to, playground struc-
13 tures, swings, slides, climbers, and spring riders.
14 (ii) Within the annual amounts appropriated therefor, the secretary of
15 state may award competitive grants of up to one hundred thousand dollars
16 to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap acces-
17 sible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities.
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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