S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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745
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, PHEFFER, SCHROEDER, SCHIMEL, LAVINE --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO, LUPARDO, McDONOUGH, WALKER,
WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans'
Affairs
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to increasing the amount
of reimbursement the division of veterans' affairs shall pay to local
veterans' service agencies for the cost and maintenance of such agen-
cies
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 359 of the executive law, as
amended by chapter 603 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
follows:
1. A local director shall designate the location of the local and
branch offices of the local veterans' service agency within his juris-
diction, which offices shall be open during convenient hours. The cost
of maintenance and operation of a county veterans' service agency shall
be a county charge and the cost of maintenance and operation of a city
veterans' service agency shall be a city charge, excepting that the
state director with the approval of the veterans' affairs commission
shall allot and pay, from state moneys made available to him for such
purposes, to each county veterans' service agency and each city veter-
ans' service agency, an amount equal to [fifty] SEVENTY-FIVE per centum
of its expenditures for maintenance and operation approved by the state
director, provided that in no event shall the amount allotted and paid
for such approved expenditures incurred in any given year exceed (1) in
the case of any county veterans' service agency in a county having a
population of not more than one hundred thousand or in the case of any
city veterans' service agency in a city having a population of not more
than one hundred thousand, the sum of [five] THIRTY-FIVE thousand
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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dollars, nor (2) in the case of any county veterans' service agency in a
county having a population in excess of one hundred thousand excluding
the population of any city therein which has a city veterans' service
agency, the sum of [five] THIRTY-FIVE thousand dollars, and, in addition
thereto, the sum of [two] SEVEN thousand five hundred dollars for each
one hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the population of the
county in excess of one hundred thousand excluding the population of any
city therein which has a city veterans' service agency, nor (3) in the
case of any city veterans' service agency in a city having a population
in excess of one hundred thousand, the sum of [five] THIRTY-FIVE thou-
sand dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of [two] SEVEN thousand
five hundred dollars for each one hundred thousand, or major portion
thereof, of the population of the city in excess of one hundred thou-
sand. Such population shall be certified in the same manner as provided
by section fifty-four of the state finance law.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.