New York A 9612: Establishes the upstate cities preparedness and resiliency fund; appropriation

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A09612 Summary:

BILL NOA09612 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBurke

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Add §99-uu, St Fin L

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Establishes the upstate cities preparedness and resiliency fund which shall distribute grants to upstate cities for projects which demonstrate measurable improvements in preparedness, resilience or emergency coordination.

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BILL NOA09612 

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01/21/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9612

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 21, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the
 upstate cities preparedness and resiliency fund; making an appropri-
 ation therefor; 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:

 1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
 2 99-uu to read as follows:
 3 § 99-uu. Upstate cities preparedness and resiliency fund. 1. For the
 4 purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following
 5 meanings:
 6 (a) "major upstate cities" shall mean cities with a population of more
 7 than one hundred twenty-five thousand and less than one million.
 8 (b) "mid-sized upstate cities" shall mean cities with a population of
 9 more than twenty-five thousand and less than or equal to one hundred
 10 twenty-five thousand.
 11 (c) "small upstate cities" shall mean cities with a population of
 12 twenty-five thousand or less.
 13 (d) "population" shall mean the population of a city according to the
 14 United States census bureau's two thousand twenty-three American commu-
 15 nity survey one-year estimates.
 16 2. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the commission-
 17 er of taxation and finance and the state comptroller a special fund to
 18 be known as the "upstate cities preparedness and resiliency fund".
 19 3. Such fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated thereto and all
 20 other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or
 21 source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent
 22 the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of
 23 the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into the fund
 24 according to law.
 25 4. The fund shall be governed and administered by the comptroller.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14013-02-6

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 1 5. The moneys in such fund shall be awarded in the form of grants by
 2 the comptroller to support cities in counties other than Rockland, West-
 3 chester, Bronx, New York, Richmond, Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk
 4 that face recurring fiscal stress and operational challenges caused by
 5 extreme winter weather, aging infrastructure, high poverty rates, and a
 6 large share of tax-exempt property that limits local revenue capacity.
 7 Such grants shall be used for emergency preparedness, response and resi-
 8 lience measures. Eligible uses may include, but shall not be limited
 9 to: emergency operations and communications improvements, hazard miti-
 10 gation and resilience planning, stormwater, culvert or winter weather
 11 resilience improvements, equipment and fleet winterization, infrastruc-
 12 ture improvements.
 13 6. Grants awarded under this section shall be distributed:
 14 (a) within ninety days of the effective date of this section to major
 15 upstate cities in an amount equal to eighty million on a per-capita
 16 basis according to the most recent census.
 17 (b) within two years of the effective date of this section to mid-
 18 sized upstate cities under a competitive grant program which shall be
 19 administered by the division of homeland security and emergency
 20 services, in collaboration with the senate committee on cities and the
 21 assembly committee on cities, for projects which demonstrate