S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7770
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 23, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK,
COOK, GANTT, GOTTFRIED, GREENE, HOYT, PERRY, P. RIVERA, WEISENBERG --
read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to authorizing additional
state aid eligibility for youth development delinquency prevention and
to repeal subparagraph 4 of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section
420 of such law relating thereto
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section
420 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2002,
is amended to read as follows:
(3) The commissioner shall thereupon certify to the comptroller for
payment by the state of one-half of the entire amount of such expendi-
tures as approved by the commissioner; provided, however, that the
amount of state aid for youth bureaus shall not exceed seventy-five
thousand dollars per annum for any county youth bureau and fifty thou-
sand dollars for any city, town or village youth bureau except a city
containing wholly within its boundaries more than one county and such
city may be granted state aid not in excess of an aggregate sum per
annum equal to seventy-five thousand dollars for each county therein;
except that the commissioner may authorize additional state aid for any
youth bureau in an amount not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per
annum where a municipality has exceeded maximum state aid youth bureau
eligibility for at least the two preceding fiscal years; provided
further, however, that the aggregate amount of state aid for recreation,
youth service and similar projects to any county shall not exceed [five]
EIGHT thousand five hundred dollars per annum, of which no more than
[two] FOUR thousand [nine] FIVE hundred dollars may be used for recre-
ation projects, for each one thousand youths residing therein as shown
by the last published federal census certified in the same manner as
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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provided by section fifty-four of the state finance law. No county oper-
ating and maintaining such a youth program shall receive state aid in
excess of one-half of its expenditures as approved by the commissioner.
PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT NO YOUTH BUREAU SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE
INCREASE IN STATE AID FOR YOUTH PROGRAMS PURSUANT TO THIS SUBPARAGRAPH
UNLESS SERVICES ARE EXPANDED AND THE AMOUNT OF ITS PARTICIPATION IS NOT
LESS THAN THAT REFLECTED IN THE LAST COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ACCEPTED AND
APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE CHAPTER
OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND NINE THAT AMENDED THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
S 2. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 420 of
the executive law is REPEALED.
S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.