S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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25
Extraordinary Session
I N S E N A T E
June 23, 2009
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of the Governor) -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to increasing the amount
of reimbursement the division of veterans' affairs shall provide to
local veterans' service agencies for the cost of maintenance of such
agencies
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 per centum of its expendi-
tures 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 veter-
ans' service agency in a city having a population of not more than one
hundred thousand, the sum of [five] TEN thousand dollars, nor (2) in the
case of any county veterans' service agency in a county having a popu-
lation in excess of one hundred thousand excluding the population of any
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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city therein which has a city veterans' service agency, the sum of
[five] TEN thousand dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of [two]
FIVE 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 veter-
ans' service agency in a city having a population in excess of one
hundred thousand, the sum of [five] TEN thousand dollars, and, in addi-
tion thereto, the sum of [two] FIVE thousand [five hundred] dollars for
each one hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the population
of the city in excess of one hundred thousand. 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 immediately and shall apply to all
expenditures made on and after April 1, 2009.