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Senate Bill S3635

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the cost of maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2021-S3635 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §359, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8210
2019-2020: S109
2023-2024: S1140
2025-2026: S2582

2021-S3635 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the state shall cover the cost of maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies up to certain set limits.

2021-S3635 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3635 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3635
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 the  cost  of  mainte-
   nance and operation of veterans' service 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  section 42 of part AA of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019, 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 or her
 jurisdiction, 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' services  commis-
 sion shall allot and pay, from state moneys made available to him or her
 for such purposes, to each county veterans' service agency and each city
 veterans'  service  agency, an amount equal to [fifty per centum of] its
 expenditures for maintenance and operation approved by the state  direc-
 tor,  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 popu-
 lation 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] TWENTY 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 the population of
 any city therein which has a city veterans' service agency, the  sum  of
 [ten]  TWENTY  thousand  dollars,  and,  in addition thereto, the sum of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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