NY State Senate Bill 2025-S2209

Senate Bill S2209

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to removing the local share requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

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Jan 15, 2025	referred to finance

2025-S2209 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: State Finance Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §54-m, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S6748
2019-2020: S277
2021-2022: S3493
2023-2024: S784

2025-S2209 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the local share requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction.

2025-S2209 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2209

SPONSOR: ORTT
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to the local share
requirements associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction

 
PURPOSE:

This legislation removes the requirement that a county stay within the
tax cap to be eligible for reimbursement for costs related to raising
the age.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 removes the language making it a requirement that a County
stay within the tax cap to be eligible for reimbursement for costs
related to raising the age, as well as the hardship provision that would
no longer be necessary under this new law.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As part of Raise the Age, Counties were not going to have to pay for any
costs associated with its implementation. However, the language as
structured requires a County to stay within the property tax cap to
receive this funding. Requiring counties to spend money to implement
raise the age while staying under the property tax cap in order to
receive reimbursement is counterintuitive. Because of this law, a County
must expend money moving them closer to the tax cap without even consid-
ering other aspects of their budget. This legislation is simple in that
it keeps the promise made to Counties, that whatever they spend to
comport with Raise the Age they will be reimbursed without any gimmicks.

 
PRIORLEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.784 of 2023/2024; Referred to Finance

S. 3493 of 2021/2022; Referred to Finance

S. 277 of 2019/2020; Referred to Finance

S. 6746 Referred to Finance.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S2209 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2209
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  the  local  share
   requirements  associated with increasing the age of juvenile jurisdic-
   tion

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 54-m of the state finance law, as added by section
 104 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 54-m. Local share requirements associated with increasing the age of
 juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of  age.  Notwithstanding  any
 other  provision  of  law  to the contrary, counties and the city of New
 York shall not be required to  contribute  a  local  share  of  eligible
 expenditures  that would not have been incurred absent the provisions of
 [a] chapter FIFTY-NINE of the laws of two thousand seventeen [that added
 this section unless the most recent budget adopted by a county  that  is
 subject  to  the  provisions of section three-c of the general municipal
 law exceeded the tax levy limit prescribed in such section or the  local
 government  is  not  subject to the provisions of section three-c of the
 general municipal law; provided, however, that the state budget director
 shall be authorized to waive any local share of expenditures  associated
 with  a chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that increased the
 age of juvenile jurisdiction above fifteen years of age, upon a  showing
 of  financial hardship by a county or the city of New York upon applica-
 tion in the form and manner prescribed by the division of the budget. In
 evaluating an application for a financial hardship  waiver,  the  budget
 director  shall consider the incremental cost to the locality related to
 increasing the age of juvenile jurisdiction, changes in state or federal
 aid payments, and other extraordinary costs, including the occurrence of
 a disaster as defined in paragraph a of subdivision two of section twen-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04369-01-5

 S. 2209                             2

 ty of the executive law, repair and maintenance of infrastructure, annu-
 al growth in tax receipts, including personal income, business and other
 taxes, prepayment of debt service and  other  expenses,  or  such  other
 factors that the director may determine].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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