Relates to aid for library construction; provides that public libraries that received aid for projects commencing July 1, 2017 through July 1, 2019 that are unable to complete such projects due to the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 202, as amended, shall be provided an additional twelve months from the statutory project end date to complete such projects.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10465
IN ASSEMBLY
May 22, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Ryan) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Libraries and Education
Technology
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state aid for library
construction; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 273-a of the education law, as
2 separately amended by chapters 381 and 389 of the laws of 2019, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. State aid shall be provided for up to fifty percent of the total
5 project approved costs, excluding feasibility studies, plans or similar
6 activities, for projects for the installation and infrastructure of
7 broadband services, and for the acquisition of vacant land and the
8 acquisition, construction, renovation or rehabilitation, including
9 leasehold improvements, of buildings of public libraries and library
10 systems chartered by the regents of the state of New York or established
11 by act of the legislature subject to the limitations provided in subdi-
12 vision six of this section and upon approval by the commissioner, except
13 that state aid may be provided for up to seventy-five percent of the
14 total project approved costs for buildings of public libraries that are
15 located in an economically disadvantaged community and that state aid
16 may be provided for up to ninety percent of the total project approved
17 costs for buildings of public libraries that are located in an econom-
18 ically distressed community. Provided however that the state liability
19 for aid paid pursuant to this section shall be limited to funds appro-
20 priated for such purpose. Aid shall be provided on approved expenses
21 incurred during the period commencing July first and ending June thirti-
22 eth for up to three years, or until the project is completed, whichever
23 occurs first. Provided, however, that public libraries that received
24 aid for projects pursuant to this section commencing July first, two
25 thousand seventeen through July first, two thousand nineteen and are
26 unable to complete such projects due to the state disaster emergency
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 declared pursuant to executive order number two hundred two of two thou-
2 sand twenty, as amended, shall be provided an additional twelve months
3 from the statutory project end date to complete such projects. Fifty
4 percent of such aid shall be payable to each system or library upon
5 approval of the application by the department. Forty percent of such aid
6 shall be payable in the next state fiscal year. The remaining ten
7 percent shall be payable upon project completion.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
9 deemed repealed July 1, 2023; provided, however, that the amendments to
10 subdivision 1 of section 273-a of the education law made by section one
11 of this act shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be
12 deemed to expire therewith.