Senate Bill S277

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to removing the local share requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction

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  • 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

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2019-S277 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §54-m, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6748
2021-2022: S3493
2023-2024: S784

2019-S277 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the local share requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction.

2019-S277 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S277 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    277
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  the  local  share
   requirements  associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdic-
   tion

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 54-m of the state finance law, as added by section
 104 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 54-m. Local share requirements associated with increasing the age of
 juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of  age.  Notwithstanding  any
 other  provision  of  law  to the contrary, counties and the city of New
 York shall not be required to  contribute  a  local  share  of  eligible
 expenditures  that would not have been incurred absent the provisions of
 [a] chapter FIFTY-NINE of the laws of two thousand seventeen that  added
 this  section [unless the most recent budget adopted by a county that is
 subject to the provisions of section three-c of  the  general  municipal
 law  exceeded the tax levy limit prescribed in such section or the local
 government is not subject to the provisions of section  three-c  of  the
 general municipal law; provided, however, that the state budget director
 shall  be authorized to waive any local share of expenditures associated
 with a chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that increased  the
 age  of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age, upon a showing
 of financial hardship by a county or the city of New York upon  applica-
 tion in the form and manner prescribed by the division of the budget. In
 evaluating  an  application  for a financial hardship waiver, the budget
 director shall consider the incremental cost to the locality related  to
 increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction, changes in state or federal
 aid payments, and other extraordinary costs, including the occurrence of

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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