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Senate Bill S3581

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Increases the amount of reimbursement the division of veterans' affairs shall pay to local veterans' service agencies

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2011-S3581 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง359, Exec L

2011-S3581 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the amount of reimbursement the division of veterans' affairs shall pay to local veterans' service agencies for the cost of maintenance and operation of such agencies.

2011-S3581 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S3581 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3581

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 25, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
  ty and Military 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  196  of  the  laws  of 2009, 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  [ten]  THIRTY-FIVE  thousand
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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09462-01-1

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