NY State Senate Bill 2025-S3269

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2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: State Finance
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S5418
2023-2024: S770

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the New York state aid and incentives for municipalities redesign task force for municipalities formula and allocations; an analysis of available alternatives to the current aid and incentives for municipalities formula and allocations, including models from other states; provides that such analysis of available alternatives shall not include the allocation of funds to any municipality which is not currently receiving aid and incentives for municipalities funding; and recommendations concerning such alternatives to the formula used to determine future aid and incentives to municipalities funding allocations.

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S3269

SPONSOR: COONEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to establishing the New York state aid and incentives
for municipalities redesign task force; and providing for the repeal of
such provisions upon expiration thereof

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 creates the aid and incentives for municipalities redesign
task force. Such task force shall issue a report to the governor and
legislature within one year concerning:

- A review and analysis of the current aid and incentives for munici-
palities formula and allocations;

- An analysis of available alternatives to the current aid and incen-
tives for municipalities formula and allocations, including models from
other states, provided, however, that such alternatives shall not
include the allocation of funds to any municipality which is not
currently receiving aid and incentives for municipalities funding;

- Recommendations concerning such alternatives to the formula used to
determine future aid and incentives to municipalities funding allo-
cations, provided, however, that such alternatives shall not include the
allocation of funds to any municipality which is not currently receiving
aid and incentives for municipalities funding; and

- Any other information the task force deems necessary of relevant.

Section 2 establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Aid and Incentives for Municipalities (AIM) program provides state
aid to nearly all of New York's cities, towns, and villages.  Munici-
palities across the state rely on this funding to finance vital services
within their communities. While AIM funding accounts for merely three-
tenths of one percent of the state's overall budget, this funding has
remained flat for eleven years. In addition, this program is often the
target of cuts, which can jeopardize the budgets of cities, towns, and
villages that rely on it the most. The base formulas that determine the
amount of aid allocated to each municipality are very outdated. For
cities, the formula is based off of aid levels that date back to the
late 1990s and early 2000s. For towns and villages, the aid levels are
even older.

In the wake of the unprecedented revenue shortfalls for municipalities
resulting from the pandemic, new sources of aid are desperately needed.
To that end, this bill would create an AIM Task Force that would exam-
ine, review, and recommend changes to the current AIM formula and allo-
cation system, in order to create a more fair and equitable distribution
of these much-needed funds. The task force must submit a report with its
findings and recommendations to the Governor and Legislature within one
year, in order for these recommendations to be taken into account in the
next year's budget process.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-24: S.770

2021-22: S.5418C, vetoed memo.56

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed
repealed December 31, 2024.

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3269
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT in relation to establishing the New York state aid and incentives
   for municipalities redesign task force; and providing for  the  repeal
   of such provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 1. New York state aid  and  incentives  for  municipalities
 redesign  task force. There is hereby created the aid and incentives for
 municipalities redesign task force whose membership shall consist  of  7
 members: the director of the division of the budget or their designee as
 chair;  the comptroller or their designee; the executive director of the
 New York State Conference of Mayors or  their  designee;  the  executive
 director  of  the New York State Association of Counties or their desig-
 nee; the executive director of the New York State Association  of  Towns
 or  their  designee;  one member appointed by the temporary president of
 the senate; and one member appointed by the  speaker  of  the  assembly.
 The task force shall report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly
 and  the  temporary president of the senate no later than one year after
 the effective date of this act.  Such report shall include, but  not  be
 limited to:
   (a)  A review and analysis of the current aid and incentives for muni-
 cipalities formula and allocations;
   (b) An analysis of available  alternatives  to  the  current  aid  and
 incentives  for municipalities formula and allocations, including models
 from other states, provided, however, that such alternatives  shall  not
 include  the  allocation  of  funds  to  any  municipality  which is not
 currently receiving aid and incentives for municipalities funding;
   (c) Recommendations concerning such alternatives to the  formula  used
 to  determine  future aid and incentives to municipalities funding allo-
 cations, provided, however, that such recommendations shall not  include
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00481-01-5

 S. 3269                             2
 
 the  allocation  of  funds  to  any  municipality which is not currently
 receiving aid and incentives for municipalities funding; and
   (d) Any other information the task force deems necessary or relevant.
   2.  All  appointments  to  the  task force shall be made no later than
 sixty days after the effective date of this act. Any  vacancy  shall  be
 filled  by  the  appointing  authority.  The  task  force  shall meet as
 frequently as it deems necessary  prior  to  issuing  its  findings  and
 recommendations.  The  members  of  the  task  force shall serve without
 compensation, except that members shall be allowed their  necessary  and
 actual  expenses  incurred in the performance of their duties under this
 section.  The department of taxation and finance and the division of the
 budget shall provide the task force with such data as the task force may
 request to carry out its powers and duties. To the  extent  practicable,
 such data shall be provided in a format in accordance with the standards
 outlined  in the New York State Open Data Handbook pursuant to executive
 order 95 of the laws of 2013. The task force may consult with any public
 or private entity it deems necessary in order to assist the  task  force
 with  information  gathering,  analysis, and formulating its conclusions
 and recommendations.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed December 31, 2026.

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Jeremy Cooney

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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