Senate Bill S8210

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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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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2017-S8210 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10714
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §359, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S109
2021-2022: S3635
2023-2024: S1140

2017-S8210 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S8210 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8210 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8210
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 18, 2018
                                ___________
 
 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  chapter  196  of  the  laws  of 2009, 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'  affairs  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
 [five] TEN thousand dollars for each  one  hundred  thousand,  or  major
 portion  thereof,  of  the  population  of  the  county in excess of one
 hundred thousand excluding the population of any city therein which  has
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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