STATE OF NEW YORK
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4950
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 24, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- 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 enacting the
"digital home act" to assist municipalities with paperwork reduction
initiatives
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known as the "digital home act".
2 § 2. Subparagraphs (vi), (vii), (viii) and (ix) of paragraph o of
3 subdivision 10 of section 54 of the state finance law are renumbered
4 subparagraphs (vii), (viii), (ix) and (x) and a new subparagraph (vi) is
5 added to read as follows:
6 (vi) Paperwork reduction project grants. (1) Within the annual amounts
7 appropriated therefor, the secretary of state may award competitive
8 grants to municipalities to cover costs associated with reducing paper-
9 work usage and implementing digital alternatives to paper.
10 (2) The maximum paperwork reduction project grant shall not exceed ten
11 thousand dollars per municipality.
12 (3) Local matching funds equal to ten percent of the total cost of
13 activities under the grant work plan approved by the department of state
14 shall be required.
15 (4) Grants awarded to municipalities pursuant to this subparagraph may
16 be included in calculations to demonstrate three year cost savings and
17 efficiencies for government efficiency plans submitted to the director
18 of the budget pursuant to subdivisions three and four of section three-d
19 of the general municipal law.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03922-01-5
