NY State Senate Bill 2023-S9230

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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May 07, 2024	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs

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2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:: Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §16, Veterans' Services L

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S9230

SPONSOR: SCARCELLA-SPANTON
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to the cost of
maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This legislation increases the amount of state reimbursement provided to
local veterans' service agencies.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends subdivision one of section 359 of the executive law to
replace the existing funding formula on total expenditures for mainte-
nance and operation that can be reimbursed by the State. It changes the
formula for funding provided to veteran service agencies by eliminating
the references to general population and replaces it with one half. of
one percent of the previous year's geographic distribution of the Veter-
ans' Administration expenditures for each county for maintenance and

operations approved by the state director.

Section 2 provides an immediate effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation seeks to provide additional financial resources to
local veterans' service agencies. Under State Law every county is
mandated to have a veterans' service agency; however, the amount of
funding provided to each agency is minimal and does not accurately
reflect caseload level. The current formula ignores the workload of each
agency. and apportions funding based solely upon the general population
of the county or city where the agency is located regardless of the
actual number of veterans utilizing the services of the local veterans'
service agency.

Although budget funds are allocated annually to these local agencies
there is a dire need for additional and accurate funding streams.  This
legislation recalibrates the funding formula to account for the workload
of each local veterans' service agency. This change in formula will
create a funding stream that more accurately provides for the needs.  of
each agency. Moreover, each local veterans' service agency will be
incentivized to take on new claims, and thus, continually serve as many
military personnel and veteran as practical.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Exact impact to be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9230
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 7, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
   land Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to the cost of
   maintenance and operation of local 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 16 of the veterans' services law
 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]
 SUCH DIRECTOR'S jurisdiction, which offices shall be open during conven-
 ient  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 commissioner with the approval of the veterans'
 services commission shall allot and pay, from state moneys  made  avail-
 able  to  [him or her] THE STATE COMMISSIONER 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 commissioner, 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 veter-
 ans' service agency in a county having a population 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 twenty-five 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 twenty-five 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 agency,  nor  (3)

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

                                                            LBD15315-02-4
 S. 9230                             2

 in  the  case  of  any  city veterans' service agency in a city having a
 population in excess of one hundred thousand,  the  sum  of  twenty-five
 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 city in excess of one  hundred  thousand.  Such  popu-
 lation  shall  be  certified  in  the same manner as provided by section
 fifty-four of the state finance law] ONE-HALF  OF  ONE  PERCENT  OF  THE
 PREVIOUS  YEAR'S  GEOGRAPHIC  DISTRIBUTION  OF  VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION
 EXPENDITURES FOR EACH COUNTY FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS APPROVED  BY
 THE STATE DIRECTOR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S9230

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

co-Sponsors

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Details

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

Jessica Scarcella-Spanton

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

co-Sponsors

Pete Harckham

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Details

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9230 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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