S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8821
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 12, 2022
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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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