Assembly Bill A9282

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the veterans' services organization capital support program

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A9282 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8503
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans' Affairs
Law Section:
Appropriations
Laws Affected:
Add Art 4 §§50 - 52, Veterans' Services L

2023-A9282 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the veterans' services organization capital support program to provide funding to eligible entities for payment of the capital costs of construction, improvement, repairs, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of facilities owned by eligible entities, and for the acquisition of related equipment with a useful life of not less than ten years; appropriates a sum of $10,000,000 therefor.

2023-A9282 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9282
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 23, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to  establishing
   the veterans' services organization capital support program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The veterans' services law is amended by adding a new arti-
 cle 4 to read as follows:
                                  ARTICLE 4
          VETERANS' SERVICES ORGANIZATION CAPITAL SUPPORT PROGRAM
 
 SECTION 50. DEFINITIONS.
         51. ESTABLISHMENT AND CRITERIA.
         52. ELIGIBLE PURPOSES.
   § 50. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  THE  FOLLOWING
 TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1.  "ELIGIBLE  ENTITY" MEANS A VETERAN SERVICE ORGANIZATION AS DEFINED
 PURSUANT TO TITLE 38 U.S. CODE SECTION 5902 AND THAT ALSO  IS  ORGANIZED
 AS  A  NOT-FOR-PROFIT  ORGANIZATION  PURSUANT  TO THE TITLE 26 U.S. CODE
 SECTION 501(C), WHICH MAY INCLUDE BUT SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO THE AMERI-
 CAN LEGION, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS,  PARA-
 LYZED  VETERANS  OF  AMERICA,  AMERICAN VETERANS AND VIETNAM VETERANS OF
 AMERICA.
   § 51. ESTABLISHMENT AND CRITERIA.  THERE  IS  HEREBY  ESTABLISHED  THE
 VETERANS' SERVICES ORGANIZATION CAPITAL SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR THE ELIGIBLE
 PURPOSES UNDER SECTION FIFTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
 DEVELOP  CRITERIA FOR THE DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS AUTHORIZED UNDER SECTION
 FIFTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE TO AN ELIGIBLE ENTITY.
   § 52. ELIGIBLE  PURPOSES.  WITHIN  AMOUNTS  SPECIFICALLY  APPROPRIATED
 THEREFORE, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL AWARD GRANTS NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED
 THOUSAND  DOLLARS  FOR  PAYMENT  OF  THE  CAPITAL COSTS OF CONSTRUCTION,
 IMPROVEMENT, REPAIRS, REHABILITATION, OR  RECONSTRUCTION  OF  FACILITIES
 OWNED  BY ELIGIBLE ENTITIES PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, AND FOR THE ACQUI-
 SITION OF RELATED EQUIPMENT WITH A USEFUL LIFE  OF  NOT  LESS  THAN  TEN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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