Allows the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance to place liens on federal property within the state in the event of federal noncompliance with congressionally approved spending.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8173
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state law and the state finance law, in relation to
allowing state finance authorities to place liens on federal property
within the state in the event of federal noncompliance with congres-
sionally approved spending
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The state law is amended by adding a new section 50-b to
2 read as follows:
3 § 50-b. Delinquent federal funds; state jurisdiction. For delinquent
4 federal funds as determined under subdivision twenty-one of section
5 eight of the state finance law, the state reserves jurisdiction with
6 respect to land that the United States or any unit of the United States
7 leases or otherwise holds in the state when the federal government is
8 found not in compliance with court decisions upholding federal congres-
9 sionally approved spending.
10 § 2. Section 8 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
11 subdivision 21 to read as follows:
12 21. a. In conjunction with the commissioner of taxation and finance,
13 determine and collect delinquent federal funds owed to the state by the
14 United States government in the event of federal noncompliance with
15 court decisions upholding congressionally approved spending.
16 b. In the event of federal noncompliance with court decisions uphold-
17 ing congressionally approved spending, the comptroller or the commis-
18 sioner may, in consultation with the attorney general, place liens on
19 federal property within the state.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11931-01-5
