New York S 17: Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements

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S00017 Summary:

BILL NOS00017 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05668

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSRASHBY, JACKSON, ROLISON, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §858, Gen Muni L

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Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life.

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BILL NOS00017 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

05/14/20251ST REPORT CAL.1102

05/15/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/19/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/28/2025PASSED SENATE

05/28/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/28/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

04/21/20261ST REPORT CAL.756

04/22/20262ND REPORT CAL.

04/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

04/28/2026PASSED SENATE

04/28/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/28/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 17

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, ASHBY, JACKSON, WEBB -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Local Government

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing
 industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for
 open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation ease-
 ments

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 16 and 17 of section 858 of the general munic-
 2 ipal law, as added by chapter 1030 of the laws of 1969 and as renumbered
 3 by chapter 356 of the laws of 1993, are amended to read as follows:
 4 (16) To establish and re-establish its fiscal year; [and]
 5 (17) To make grants to the municipality for whose benefit the agency
 6 was established for the purpose of open space preservation, parkland
 7 improvements and conservation easements provided the governing board of
 8 such municipality shall accept the same and find that the same encour-
 9 ages tourism or otherwise improves the quality of life in such munici-
 10 pality; and
 11 (18) To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out its
 12 purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this title.
 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00067-01-5

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