STATE OF NEW YORK
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8881
IN SENATE
January 13, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
the dormitory authority to provide additional services to local
governments and the department of environmental conservation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1676 of the
2 public authorities law is amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph
3 to read as follows:
4 Any county, city, town, and village, for the construction, recon-
5 struction, development, improvement, expansion and/or equipping of a
6 facility or facilities and necessary ancillary and related facilities;
7 provided, however, that any alternative delivery authorization derived
8 pursuant to the Infrastructure Investment Act, part F of chapter 60 of
9 the laws of 2015, as amended by part DD of chapter 58 the laws of 2020,
10 shall not be applicable to any project undertaken by the authority on
11 behalf of any county, city, town, and village pursuant to this section
12 and further providing that nothing in this section shall result in the:
13 (1) displacement of any currently employed worker or loss of position
14 (including partial displacement such as a reduction in the hours of
15 non-overtime work, wages or employment benefits), or result in the
16 impairment of existing collective bargaining agreements; and (2) trans-
17 fer of existing duties and functions currently performed by existing
18 public employees for a public employer that becomes eligible to utilize
19 the dormitory authority pursuant to this section.
20 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1680 of the public authorities law is
21 amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
22 Any county, city, town, and village, for the construction, recon-
23 struction, development, improvement, expansion and/or equipping of a
24 facility or facilities and necessary ancillary and related facilities;
25 provided, however, that any alternative delivery authorization derived
26 pursuant to the Infrastructure Investment Act, part F of chapter 60 of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the laws of 2015, as amended by part DD of chapter 58 the laws of 2020
2 shall not be applicable to any project undertaken by the authority on
3 behalf of any county, city, town, and village pursuant to this section
4 and that nothing in this section shall result in the: (1) displacement
5 of any currently employed worker or loss of position (including partial
6 displacement such as a reduction in the hours of non-overtime work,
7 wages or employment benefits), or result in the impairment of existing
8 collective bargaining agreements; and (2) transfer of existing duties
9 and functions currently performed by existing public employees for a
10 public employer that becomes eligible to utilize the dormitory authority
11 pursuant to this section.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
