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Assembly Bill A6159

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Includes public library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to apply for local government efficiency grants

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2019-A6159 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §54, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A6639
2015-2016: A8291
2017-2018: A4810

2019-A6159 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes public library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to apply for local government efficiency grants.

2019-A6159 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6159
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Libraries and Education Technology
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the  inclusion  of
   library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to
   apply for local government efficiency grants

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Clause 1 of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (o)  of  subdivi-
 sion  10 of section 54 of the state finance law, as amended by section 7
 of part GG of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (1)  For  the  purposes  of  this paragraph, "municipality" shall mean
 counties, cities, towns, villages, special improvement  districts,  fire
 districts,  public  libraries,  association  libraries,  PUBLIC  LIBRARY
 SYSTEMS AS DEFINED BY SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO OF  THE  EDUCATION
 LAW,  water authorities, sewer authorities, regional planning and devel-
 opment boards, school districts, and boards of  cooperative  educational
 services; provided, however, that for the purposes of this definition, a
 board  of cooperative educational services shall be considered a munici-
 pality only in instances where such  board  of  cooperative  educational
 services  advances a joint application on behalf of school districts and
 other  municipalities  within  the  board  of  cooperative   educational
 services  region; provided, however, that any agreements with a board of
 cooperative educational services: shall not  generate  additional  state
 aid; shall be deemed not to be a part of the program, capital and admin-
 istrative  budgets  of the board of cooperative educational services for
 the purposes of computing charges upon component school districts pursu-
 ant to subparagraph seven of paragraph b of subdivision four of  section
 nineteen  hundred  fifty and subdivision one of section nineteen hundred
 fifty and subdivision one of section nineteen hundred fifty-one  of  the
 education law; and shall be deemed to be a cooperative municipal service
 for  purposes  of subparagraph two of paragraph d of subdivision four of
 section nineteen hundred fifty of the education law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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