A06290 Summary:
BILL NO | A06290 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S04560 |
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SPONSOR | Jean-Pierre |
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COSPNSR | Eachus, Brabenec, Santabarbara, Sillitti |
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MLTSPNSR | Davila |
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Rpld §186-f sub 5 ¶(a), amd §186-f, Tax L | |
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Removes language requiring the state from moving public safety surcharge funds into the state general fund; increases from seventy-five million dollars to one million dollars available for grants or reimbursements to counties for the development, consolidation, or operation of public safety communications systems or networks designed to support statewide interoperable communications for first responders. |
A06290 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6290 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the public safety surcharge; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 186-f of the tax 2 law is REPEALED. 3 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 186-f of the tax law, 4 as amended by section 38 of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2010, is 5 amended to read as follows: 6 (c) Up to the sum of [seventy-five] one hundred million dollars annu- 7 ally may be used for the provision of grants or reimbursements to coun- 8 ties for the development, consolidation, or operation of public safety 9 communications systems or networks designed to support statewide inter- 10 operable communications for first responders, to be distributed pursuant 11 to standards and guidelines issued by the state. Annual grants may 12 consider costs borne by a municipality related to the issuance of local 13 public safety communications bonds pursuant to section twenty-four 14 hundred thirty-two of the public authorities law, when the municipality 15 has qualified as an approved participant in a statewide interoperable 16 communications system under the standards and guidelines issued by the 17 state, and maintains compliance with such standards and guidelines. The 18 grant amount will be prescribed pursuant to an agreement with the muni- 19 cipality, and may not exceed thirty percent of the annual cost borne by 20 the municipality in relation to such bonds; 21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09330-01-3