Senate Bill S9683A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing the state university of New York at Stony Brook to lease certain lands to construct multi-purpose facilities to support housing needs and supporting amenities

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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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2023-S9683 - Details

Law Section:
New York State University

2023-S9683 - Summary

Authorizes the state university of New York at Stony Brook to lease certain lands on the Southampton campus to construct multi-purpose facilities to support housing needs and supporting amenities for students and staff; requires compliance with certain state labor and contracting laws.

2023-S9683 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9683 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9683
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 20, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT relating to authorizing the state university of New York at Stony
   Brook to lease certain lands to construct multi-purpose facilities  to
   support housing needs and supporting amenities for students and staff

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that the  state
 university  of  New  York  at  Stony  Brook ("Stony Brook") seeks to use
 approximately 16 acres of underutilized land on Stony Brook's  Southamp-
 ton  campus  to  build multi-purpose facilities to support housing needs
 and supporting amenities for the university's undergraduate and graduate
 students, as well as junior faculty and staff.  The legislature  further
 finds  that  granting  the  trustees of the state university of New York
 ("Trustees") the authority and power to lease and otherwise contract  to
 make  available  grounds  and  facilities  of  Stony Brook's campus will
 ensure such land is  utilized  for  the  benefit  of  Stony  Brook,  the
 surrounding community, and the general public.
   §  2.  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the trustees are
 authorized and empowered, without  any  public  bidding,  to  lease  and
 otherwise contract to make available to a ground lessee a portion of the
 lands  of Stony Brook generally described in this act for the purpose of
 developing, constructing, maintaining and operating multi-purpose facil-
 ities to support housing needs and supporting amenities. Such  lease  or
 contract  shall  be for a period not exceeding ninety-nine years without
 any fee simple conveyance and otherwise upon terms and conditions deter-
 mined by such trustees, subject to the approval of the director  of  the
 division  of the budget, the attorney general and the state comptroller.
 In the event that the real property that is the subject of such lease or
 contract shall cease to be used for the purpose described in  this  act,
 such lease or contract shall immediately terminate and the real property
 and any improvements thereon shall revert to the state university of New
 York.  Any  lease  or  contract  entered into pursuant to this act shall
 provide that the real property that is the  subject  of  such  lease  or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

2023-S9683A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
New York State University

2023-S9683A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the state university of New York at Stony Brook to lease certain lands on the Southampton campus to construct multi-purpose facilities to support housing needs and supporting amenities for students and staff; requires compliance with certain state labor and contracting laws.

2023-S9683A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9683A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9683--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 20, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT relating to authorizing the state university of New York at Stony
   Brook to lease certain lands to construct multi-purpose facilities  to
   support housing needs and supporting amenities for students and staff
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that the  state
 university  of  New  York  at  Stony  Brook ("Stony Brook") seeks to use
 approximately 16 acres of underutilized land on Stony Brook's  Southamp-
 ton  campus  to  build multi-purpose facilities to support housing needs
 and supporting amenities for the university's undergraduate and graduate
 students, as well as junior faculty and staff.  The legislature  further
 finds  that  granting  the  trustees of the state university of New York
 ("Trustees") the authority and power to lease and otherwise contract  to
 make  available  grounds  and  facilities  of  Stony Brook's campus will
 ensure such land is  utilized  for  the  benefit  of  Stony  Brook,  the
 surrounding community, and the general public.
   §  2.  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the trustees are
 authorized and empowered, without  any  public  bidding,  to  lease  and
 otherwise contract to make available to a ground lessee a portion of the
 lands  of Stony Brook generally described in this act for the purpose of
 developing, constructing, maintaining and operating multi-purpose facil-
 ities to support housing needs and supporting amenities. Such  lease  or
 contract  shall  be for a period not exceeding ninety-nine years without
 any fee simple conveyance and otherwise upon terms and conditions deter-
 mined by such trustees, subject to the approval of the director  of  the
 division  of the budget, the attorney general and the state comptroller.
 In the event that the real property that is the subject of such lease or
 contract shall cease to be used for the purpose described in  this  act,
 such lease or contract shall immediately terminate and the real property
 and any improvements thereon shall revert to the state university of New
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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