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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5666--B
            Cal. No. 784
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 10, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and  Commissions -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
          first and second report, ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
          ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of third reading
          -- again amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
          order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to financing by
          and through the dormitory authority for the Reece School; and to amend
          chapter 698 of the laws of 1991 amending the  public  authorities  law
          and  the  education law, relating to the construction and financing of
          facilities by the dormitory authority  for  private  schools  approved
          pursuant  to article 89 of the education law, in relation to including
          the Reece School, New York
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. The undesignated paragraph of paragraph (b) of subdivision
     2  2 of section 1676 of the public authorities law, as added by chapter 465
     3  of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     4    The Reece School, for the financing or refinancing,  or  reimbursement
     5  of  the costs of, the acquisition, design, construction, reconstruction,
     6  rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing and equipping of,  or  otherwise
     7  providing for, additional floors or facilities for education and therapy
     8  at  their facility located at twenty-five East One Hundred Fourth Street
     9  in the city of New York, to serve as  a  school  for  special  education
    10  students;  provided, however, that the aggregate sum of any bonds issued
    11  for such purpose shall not exceed [twenty] thirty-five million  dollars.
    12  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, the Reece School shall have
    13  full power and authority to assign and pledge to the dormitory  authori-
    14  ty, any and all public funds to be apportioned or otherwise made payable
    15  by the United States, any agency thereof, the state, any agency thereof,
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11647-03-9
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     1  a political subdivision, as defined in section one hundred of the gener-
     2  al municipal law, any social services district in the state or any other
     3  governmental  entity  in  an  amount  sufficient  to  make  all payments
     4  required  to be made by the Reece School to any lease, sublease or other
     5  agreement entered into  between  the  Reece  School  and  the  dormitory
     6  authority.  All  state  and  local  officers  are  hereby authorized and
     7  required to pay all such funds so assigned and pledged to the  dormitory
     8  authority  or,  upon  the  direction  of the dormitory authority, to any
     9  trustee of any dormitory authority bond or note issued,  pursuant  to  a
    10  certificate  filed with any such state or local officer by the dormitory
    11  authority pursuant to the provisions of this section.
    12    § 2. The undesignated paragraph of subdivision 1 of  section  1680  of
    13  the public authorities law, as added by chapter 465 of the laws of 2009,
    14  is amended to read as follows:
    15    The  Reece  School, for the financing or refinancing, or reimbursement
    16  of the costs of, the acquisition, design, construction,  reconstruction,
    17  rehabilitation,  improvement,  furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise
    18  providing for, additional floors or facilities for education and therapy
    19  at their facility located at twenty-five East One Hundred Fourth  Street
    20  in  the  city  of  New  York, to serve as a school for special education
    21  students; provided, however, that the aggregate sum of any bonds  issued
    22  for  such purpose shall not exceed [twenty] thirty-five million dollars.
    23  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Reece School shall  have
    24  full  power and authority to assign and pledge to the dormitory authori-
    25  ty, any and all public funds to be apportioned or otherwise made payable
    26  by the United States, any agency thereof, the state, any agency thereof,
    27  a political subdivision, as defined in section one hundred of the gener-
    28  al municipal law, any social services district in the state or any other
    29  governmental entity  in  an  amount  sufficient  to  make  all  payments
    30  required  to be made by the Reece School to any lease, sublease or other
    31  agreement entered into  between  the  Reece  School  and  the  dormitory
    32  authority.  All  state  and  local  officers  are  hereby authorized and
    33  required to pay all such funds so assigned and pledged to the  dormitory
    34  authority  or,  upon  the  direction  of the dormitory authority, to any
    35  trustee of any dormitory authority bond or note issued,  pursuant  to  a
    36  certificate  filed with any such state or local officer by the dormitory
    37  authority pursuant to the provisions of this section.
    38    § 3. Section 7 of chapter 698 of the laws of 1991 amending the  public
    39  authorities  law and the education law, relating to the construction and
    40  financing of facilities by the dormitory authority for  private  schools
    41  approved  pursuant  to  article  89  of the education law, as separately
    42  amended by chapters 28 and 471 of the laws of 2006, is amended  to  read
    43  as follows:
    44    §  7.  The  following private not-for-profit schools shall be eligible
    45  private not-for-profit schools for purposes of title 4 of article  8  of
    46  the  public  authorities law and, with respect to them, for the purposes
    47  of article 15-A of the executive law only, the dormitory authority shall
    48  be deemed a state agency as the term is used in such  article,  and  its
    49  contracts  for  design,  construction,  services  and materials shall be
    50  deemed state contracts within the meaning of that term as set  forth  in
    51  such article:
    52  Baker Hall, Lackawanna, New York
    53  The Children's Home of Kingston, New York, Kingston, New York
    54  Hawthorne Foundation, Inc., also known as, Hawthorne Country Day School,
    55  Hawthorne, New York and Hawthorne Country Day School -- Manhattan Annex
    56  Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial, Inc., Yonkers, New York
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     1  Ketchum-Grande Memorial School, aka Ketchum-Grande School, aka The
     2  Charlton School, Burnt Hills, New York
     3  The Leake and Watts Children's Home, (Incorporated), Yonkers, New York
     4  LaSalle School, Inc., also known as LaSalle School, Albany, New York
     5  Northeast Parent and Child Society, Inc., Schenectady, New York
     6  Our Lady of Victory Home, Lackawanna, New York
     7  The Reece School, the city of New York, New York
     8  Saint  Anne  Foundation, also known as Saint Anne Institute, Albany, New
     9  York
    10  The Summit School, also known as The Summit School, Inc.,  Upper  Nyack,
    11  New York.
    12    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.