Prohibits requiring counties or the city of New York to contribute local shares of eligible expenditures in order to receive funding associated with raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9210
IN SENATE
February 13, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to prohibiting
requiring certain municipalities to contribute local shares of eligi-
ble expenditures in order to receive funding associated with raising
the age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 54-m of the state finance law, as added by section
2 104 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 § 54-m. Local share requirements associated with increasing the age of
5 juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age. Notwithstanding any
6 other provision of law to the contrary, counties and the city of New
7 York shall not be required to contribute a local share of eligible
8 expenditures [that would not have been incurred absent the provisions of
9 a chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that added this section
10 unless the most recent budget adopted by a county that is subject to the
11 provisions of section three-c of the general municipal law exceeded the
12 tax levy limit prescribed in such section or the local government is not
13 subject to the provisions of section three-c of the general municipal
14 law; provided, however, that the state budget director shall be author-
15 ized to waive any local share of expenditures associated with a chapter
16 of the laws of two thousand seventeen that increased the age of juvenile
17 jurisdiction above fifteen years of age, upon a showing of financial
18 hardship by a county or the city of New York upon application in the
19 form and manner prescribed by the division of the budget. In evaluating
20 an application for a financial hardship waiver, the budget director
21 shall consider the incremental cost to the locality related to increas-
22 ing the age of juvenile jurisdiction, changes in state or federal aid
23 payments, and other extraordinary costs, including the occurrence of a
24 disaster as defined in paragraph a of subdivision two of section twenty
25 of the executive law, repair and maintenance of infrastructure, annual
26 growth in tax receipts, including personal income, business and other
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 taxes, prepayment of debt service and other expenses, or such other
2 factors that the director may determine] in order to receive funding
3 associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction above
4 fifteen years of age.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
