NY State Senate Bill 2011-S7731

Senate Bill S7731

Signed By Governor

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides that municipalities made coterminous may qualify for certain tax programs

download bill text pdf

Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

Please enter your contact information

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

A valid email address is required.

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

View Actions

	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Aug 17, 2012	approval memo.10 signed chap.435
Aug 06, 2012	delivered to governor
Jun 21, 2012	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.560 substituted for a10738
Jun 20, 2012	referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1402
Jun 15, 2012	referred to rules

Votes

- Jun 20, 2012 - Floor Vote
  S7731
  
  60
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 20, 2012
      
      aye (60)
      
      Adams
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Alesi
      
      Avella
      
      Ball
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Duane
      
      Farley
      
      Flanagan
      
      Fuschillo
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Grisanti
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Johnson
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Martins
      
      Maziarz
      
      McDonald
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oppenheimer
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Saland
      
      Sampson
      
      Savino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Smith
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Storobin
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      Zeldin
      
      excused (2)
      
      Espaillat
      
      Huntley
  Jun 20, 2012 - Rules Committee Vote
  S7731
  
  25
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 20, 2012
      
      aye (25)
      
      Alesi
      
      Breslin
      
      Dilan
      
      Duane
      
      Farley
      
      Fuschillo
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Johnson
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Larkin
      
      Libous
      
      Marcellino
      
      Maziarz
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      Parker
      
      Perkins
      
      Saland
      
      Sampson
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Smith
      
      Stewart-Cousins

co-Sponsors

2011-S7731 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10738
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §54, St Fin L

2011-S7731 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that municipalities made coterminous may qualify for the citizen empowerment tax credit and the local government citizens re-organization empowerment grant program.

2011-S7731 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S7731

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the state finance law, in relation to providing that
municipalities made coterminous may qualify for the citizen empowerment
tax credit and the local government citizens re-organization empowerment
grant program

PURPOSE:
To expand the definition of the term "consolidation" for purposes of
the "citizen empowerment tax credit" and the "local government
citizens re-organization empowerment grant program" to include the
creation of a coterminous village and town government.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Amends subparagraph (ii) of paragraph p of subdivision 10
of section 54 of the state finance law to include a town, which is
deemed the surviving municipality in a coterminous consolidation of
the borders of a town and village, as an eligible municipality for
the citizen empowerment tax credit. Additionally, the Secretary of
State is authorized to make rules and regulations to implement the
tax credit in circumstances where the secretary determines that a
coterminous consolidation of the borders of town and village will
result in a savings to taxpayers.

Section 2. Amends clause 2 of subparagraph (i) of paragraph q of
subdivision 10 of section 54 of the state finance law to include "the
making of the boundaries of a town and village existing on July
first, two thousand twelve coterminous in a manner which would
qualify the town for a citizen empowerment tax credit" within the
definition of "local government re-organization" for the purposes of
the local government citizens reorganization empowerment grant program.

Section 3. Effective Date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Current law does not include the creation of a coterminous village and
town government within the definition of consolidation for the
purpose of the "citizen empowerment tax credit" or the "local
government citizens reorganization empowerment grant program."
However, this form of consolidation is an option of consolidation of
some services for some municipalities and should not be excluded from
state benefits of consolidation.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2011-S7731 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7731

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 15, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in  relation  to  providing  that
  municipalities  made  coterminous may qualify for the citizen empower-
  ment tax credit and  the  local  government  citizens  re-organization
  empowerment grant program

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of  paragraph  p  of  subdivision  10  of
section  54  of the state finance law, as amended by section 2 of part K
of chapter 57 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  (ii) Within the annual amounts appropriated therefor, surviving  muni-
cipalities  following  a  consolidation  or  dissolution occurring on or
after the state fiscal year commencing April first, two  thousand  seven
shall  be  awarded  additional  annual aid, starting in the state fiscal
year following the state fiscal year  in  which  such  consolidation  or
dissolution took effect, equal to fifteen percent of the combined amount
of real property taxes levied by all of the municipalities participating
in  the  consolidation  or dissolution in the local fiscal year prior to
the local fiscal year in which such consolidation  or  dissolution  took
effect.  In  instances  of  the dissolution of a village located in more
than one town, such additional  aid  shall  equal  the  sum  of  fifteen
percent of the real property taxes levied by such village in the village
fiscal  year  prior to the village fiscal year in which such dissolution
took effect plus fifteen percent of the average amount of real  property
taxes  levied  by the towns in which the village was located in the town
fiscal year prior to the town fiscal year in which such dissolution took
effect, and shall be divided among such towns based on the percentage of
such village's population that resided in each such town as of the  most
recent  federal  decennial  census.  In no case shall the additional aid
pursuant to this paragraph exceed one million dollars.  Such  additional
aid  shall  be  apportioned and paid to the chief fiscal officer of each
eligible municipality on or before September twenty-fifth of  each  such
state  fiscal  year on audit and warrant of the state comptroller out of

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

                                                           LBD16288-01-2

S. 7731                             2

moneys appropriated by the legislature for such purpose to the credit of
the local assistance fund. FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  BEING  ELIGIBLE  FOR  A
CITIZEN  EMPOWERMENT  TAX  CREDIT, IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER MUNICIPALITY
WHICH  IS ELIGIBLE, A TOWN SHALL BE DEEMED THE SURVIVING MUNICIPALITY IN
THE CASE OF A TOWN AND VILLAGE EXISTING AS OF JULY FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND
TWELVE,  WHICH THEREAFTER, BUT NOT BEFORE, SHARE A COTERMINOUS BOUNDARY.
IN THE CASE OF A TOWN WHICH QUALIFIES  FOR  A  CITIZEN  EMPOWERMENT  TAX
CREDIT AS A RESULT OF SHARING A COTERMINOUS BOUNDARY WITH A VILLAGE, THE
SECRETARY OF STATE IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO IMPLE-
MENT THE TAX CREDIT IN CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE THE SECRETARY DETERMINES SUCH
COTERMINOUS NATURE WILL RESULT IN SAVINGS TO TAXPAYERS.
  S  2. Clause 2 of subparagraph (i) of paragraph q of subdivision 10 of
section 54 of the state finance law, as added by section 3 of part K  of
chapter 57 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  (2) For the purposes of this paragraph, "local government re-organiza-
tion"  shall mean the consolidation or dissolution of a local government
entity in accordance with article seventeen-A of the  general  municipal
law  OR  THE  MAKING OF THE BOUNDARIES OF A TOWN AND VILLAGE EXISTING ON
JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWELVE COTERMINOUS  IN  A  MANNER  WHICH  WOULD
QUALIFY THE TOWN FOR A CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT TAX CREDIT.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Senate Bill S7731

Share this bill

Sponsored By

John J. Bonacic