STATE OF NEW YORK
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1207
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to grants to assist local
governments with reducing paper
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 164-e
2 to read as follows:
3 § 164-e. Grants to local governments for the reduction of paper use.
4 1. Within the annual amounts appropriated therefor, the secretary of
5 state may award grants on a competitive basis to local governments in
6 order to reduce paper usage and to implement digital alternatives to
7 paper. The secretary of state shall by regulation establish criteria for
8 such competitive grants, which shall at a minimum:
9 (a) provide that the maximum grant amount shall not exceed ten thou-
10 sand dollars per local government;
11 (b) require local matching funds equal to twenty-five percent of the
12 total amount of such grant; and
13 (c) establish an application, evaluation, and award process for such
14 grant program, which shall be competitive and publicly available.
15 2. Grants awarded to local governments pursuant to this section may be
16 included in calculations to demonstrate three year cost savings and
17 efficiencies for government efficiency plans submitted to the director
18 of the budget.
19 3. For the purposes of this section, the term "local government" shall
20 have the same meaning as in section three-c of the general municipal
21 law.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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