NY State Senate Bill 2023-S8460

Senate Bill S8460

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a municipal senior center capital support program in the office for the aging for local senior centers to assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the purchase of senior buses

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance 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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 31, 2024	referred to finance

2023-S8460 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9374
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Appropriations
Laws Affected:: Add §226, Eld L

2023-S8460 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a municipal senior center capital support program in the office for the aging to assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the purchase of senior buses; directs the director of the office for the aging to develop an application and establish criteria for the disbursement of grants to eligible municipalities for the purpose of procuring senior buses; makes an appropriation.

2023-S8460 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8460

SPONSOR: ROLISON
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the elder law, in relation to establishing a municipal
senior center capital support program in the office for the aging to
assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the
purchase of senior buses; and making an appropriation therefor

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To enact the Municipal Senior Center Capital Support Program that estab-
lishes a program in the State Office for the Aging (SOFA) for local
senior centers to access capital funds necessary for the purchase of ADA
accessible senior buses.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Creates the Municipal Senior Center Capital Support Program
and defines eligible entities as municipalities with senior centers.
Directs the Director to establish criteria for the disbursement of

grants (not to exceed $100,000) to eligible municipalities for the
purpose of procuring senior buses.

Section 2. Appropriates $3 million in capital projects to the State
Office of the Aging to effectuate the purposes of the bill.

Section 3: Severability clause.

Section 4. Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation creates the Municipal Senior Center Capital Support
Program to help local governments provide transportation services to
seniors. The program would be administered by the State Office for the
Aging (SOFA) and allows municipal senior centers to access grants of up
to $100,000 for ADA accessible senior buses.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

$3 million to the state, no fiscal impact on local governments.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2023-S8460 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8460
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to establishing  a  municipal
   senior  center  capital support program in the office for the aging to
   assist municipalities in accessing capital  funds  necessary  for  the
   purchase of senior buses; and making an appropriation therefor

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a  new  section  226  to
 read as follows:
   §  226.  MUNICIPAL  SENIOR CENTER CAPITAL SUPPORT PROGRAM. 1. THERE IS
 HEREBY CREATED WITHIN THE OFFICE FOR THE AGING A MUNICIPAL SENIOR CENTER
 CAPITAL SUPPORT PROGRAM TO ASSIST  MUNICIPALITIES  IN  THE  PURCHASE  OF
 VEHICLES  FOR  THE TRANSPORTATION OF SENIOR CITIZENS RESIDING WITHIN THE
 BOUNDARIES OF THE MUNICIPALITY TO QUALIFYING EVENTS AS DETERMINED BY THE
 DIRECTOR.
   2.  WITHIN AMOUNTS SPECIFICALLY APPROPRIATED THEREFORE,  THE  DIRECTOR
 SHALL  AWARD  GRANTS  TO  A  MUNICIPALITY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE
 HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER MUNICIPALITY FOR THE ACQUISITION  OF  BUSES
 OR  OTHER  MEANS  OF TRANSPORTATION RELATED EQUIPMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF
 TRANSPORTATION OF SENIOR CITIZENS.   SUCH BUSES AND/OR  EQUIPMENT  SHALL
 HAVE A USEFUL LIFE OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE YEARS.
   3.  NO  FUNDS  AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS SECTION MAY BE USED AS A REQUIRED
 MATCH OR BE CONSIDERED A LOCAL SHARE TO ANY OTHER STATE  PROGRAM  OR  TO
 LEVERAGE STATE AID OR GRANTS.
   4. (A) THE DIRECTOR OF THE STATE OFFICE FOR THE AGING SHALL DEVELOP AN
 APPLICATION  FOR  USE BY ELIGIBLE MUNICIPALITIES TO APPLY FOR A GRANT, A
 LIST  OF  APPROVED  TRANSPORTATION  EQUIPMENT,  AND  CRITERIA  FOR   THE
 DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS AUTHORIZED TO AN ELIGIBLE MUNICIPALITY.
   (B)  THE  DIRECTOR SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS AS NECESSARY
 TO CARRY OUT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   5. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "MUNICIPALITY" MEANS A  MUNICIPAL
 CORPORATION AS DEFINED PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN-N OF THE
 GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD14030-01-4
 S. 8460                             2
 
   § 2. The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000), or so much thereof
 as  may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the state office for the
 aging out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general  fund,  not
 otherwise  appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose
 of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable
 on  the  audit  and  warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
 approved by the director of the state office for the aging in the manner
 prescribed by law.
   § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
 sion, section or part of this act shall be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
 competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
 impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
 its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
 the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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