Assembly Bill A8821

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the cost of maintenance and operation of veterans' services 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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2021-A8821 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans' Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §359, Exec L

2021-A8821 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A8821 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8821
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Veterans' 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  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  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 thousand dollars, nor  (2)  in  the
 case  of  any county veterans' service agency in a county having a popu-
 lation in excess of one hundred thousand excluding the population of any
 city therein which has a city veterans' service agency, the sum  of  ten
 thousand  dollars,  and,  in  addition thereto, the sum of five 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 a city veterans' service agen-
 cy, nor (3) in the case of any city veterans' service agency in  a  city

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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