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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6496
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Aging
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.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 5. For the purposes of this section, "municipality" means a municipal
2 corporation as defined pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-n of the
3 general municipal law.
4 § 2. The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000), or so much thereof
5 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the state office for the
6 aging out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund, not
7 otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose
8 of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable
9 on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
10 approved by the director of the state office for the aging in the manner
11 prescribed by law.
12 § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
13 sion, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of
14 competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
15 impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
16 its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
17 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
18 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
19 the legislature that this act would have been enacted even if such
20 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
21 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
