New York S 3212: Provides for state assistance to local governments for the enforcement of fire prevention and building codes

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S03212 Summary:

BILL NOS03212 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07059

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SPONSORKAVANAGH

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COSPNSRASHBY, FAHY, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, MARTINEZ, MATTERA, RHOADS, ROLISON, WEBB, WEBER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §9108, Ins L; amd §54-g, St Fin L

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Provides for state assistance to local governments for the enforcement of fire prevention and building codes using monies paid into the code enforcement account.

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BILL NOS03212 

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01/24/2025REFERRED TO INSURANCE

03/24/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INSURANCE

02/09/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3212

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, HARCKHAM, MARTINEZ, ROLISON, WEBB, WEBER
 -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
 the Committee on Insurance

 AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the state finance law, in relation
 to providing for state assistance to local governments for the
 enforcement of fire prevention and building codes

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subsection (b) of section 9108 of the insur-
 2 ance law is amended and a new subsection (f) is added to read as
 3 follows:
 4 (2) On or before the fifteenth day of February of each year, every
 5 insurance company required to collect the fee imposed by this section
 6 shall file with [said] the superintendent an annual statement in a
 7 manner the superintendent shall prescribe, which statement shall show
 8 the aggregate amount of gross premiums and premium deposits and assess-
 9 ments collected during the immediately preceding year for insurance
 10 against loss or injury and the several items of deduction referred to
 11 under items (i) and (ii) of paragraph one of this subsection.
 12 (f) Commencing April first, two thousand twenty-six, all such monies
 13 received by the superintendent and paid into the code enforcement
 14 account pursuant to this section shall be for the purpose of state aid
 15 to localities for the enforcement of their relevant fire prevention and
 16 building codes in accordance with section fifty-four-g of the state
 17 finance law and any administrative expenses incurred by the secretary of
 18 state pursuant to such programs.
 19 § 2. Section 54-g of the state finance law, as added by chapter 707 of
 20 the laws of 1981, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 609 of the laws of
 21 1983, is amended to read as follows:
 22 § 54-g. State assistance to local governments for support of activ-
 23 ities related to fire prevention and building codes. 1. Beginning [in

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06915-01-5

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 1 March, nineteen hundred eighty-two] on April first, two thousand twen-
 2 ty-six and annually thereafter, the secretary of state shall grant each
 3 county, city, village, and town [shall receive from moneys appropriated
 4 by the state in] outside a village monies from the code enforcement
 5 account as established in and pursuant to section ninety-one hundred
 6 eight of the insurance law to support [of] activities related to the
 7 administration and enforcement [in the previous calendar] year of their
 8 respective fire prevention and building codes [the sum of] in the previ-
 9 ous calendar year in the amounts computed in paragraphs a [and], b and c
 10 below.
 11 a. One-half the amount [appropriated] of monies in the code enforce-
 12 ment account multiplied by the proportion which the [population of]
 13 number of building permits issued by the county, city, village or town
 14 outside a village bears to the [population of] number of such permits
 15 issued in the state taken as a whole.
 16 b. One-half the amount appropriated multiplied by the proportion which
 17 [the full value of] the number of fire safety inspections conducted by
 18 the county, city, village or town outside a village bears to the [full