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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2023
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 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 veterans' services law, in relation to the  cost  of
   maintenance 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 16 of the veterans' services  law,
 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  commissioner  with  the  approval of the veterans' services
 commission 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
 commissioner, 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  twenty-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
 the population of any city therein which has a  city  veterans'  service
 agency, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and, in addition there-
 to,  the  sum of five thousand dollars for each one hundred thousand, or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 major portion thereof, of the population of the county in excess of  one
 hundred  thousand excluding the population of any city therein which has
 a city veterans' service agency, nor (3) in the case of any city  veter-
 ans'  service  agency  in  a  city  having a population in excess of one
 hundred thousand, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and, in addi-
 tion thereto, the sum of five thousand  dollars  for  each  one  hundred
 thousand,  or  major  portion  thereof, of the population of the city in
 excess of one hundred thousand. Such population shall  be  certified  in
 the  same  manner as provided by section fifty-four of the state finance
 law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as section 2 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, takes
 effect.