New York S 5230: Creates the "disaster preparedness and emergency planning act"; local sales tax exemption for emergency preparedness supplies

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S05230 Summary:

BILL NOS05230 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05191

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRJACKSON, SANDERS, SCARCELLA-SPANTON

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §29-k, Exec L; add §99-ss, St Fin L

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Expands eligibility for loans and grants pursuant to the resilient retrofits loan and grant program for private sewer repairs and upgrades; establishes the resilient retrofits loan and grant fund.

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BILL NOS05230 

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02/19/2025REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5230

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 19, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veter-
 ans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs

 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation
 to expanding eligibility for participation in the resilient retrofits
 loan and grant program and establishing the resilient retrofit loan
 and grant fund

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

 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 29-k
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 29-k. Resilient retrofits loan and grant program expansion. 1. For
 4 the purposes of this section, "division" shall mean the division of
 5 housing and community renewal.
 6 2. The division of housing and community renewal, in conjunction with
 7 the comptroller, Home HeadQuarters, Inc., and community development Long
 8 Island (CDLI), shall establish and administer the resilient retrofits
 9 loan and grant program as provided in this section.
 10 3. (a) The resilient retrofit loan and program shall provide low or
 11 no-interest loans to individual property owners to provide financing for
 12 hazard mitigation and resilience projects, including but not limited to
 13 repairs, cleanups, and upgrades of private sewers in multiple dwellings
 14 and single-family homes where the sewer capacity for such private sewers
 15 has been exceeded. Such loans may be attached to property taxes, allow-
 16 ing for the property to be sold so long as the new owner agrees to
 17 assume the debt obligation.
 18 (b) Loans provided under this section may be used to satisfy the non-
 19 federal match for federal mitigation grants.
 20 4. (a) Resilient New York revolving loan program shall provide grants
 21 to individual property owners to provide financing for hazard mitigation
 22 and resilience projects, including but not limited to construction and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06087-01-5

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 1 maintenance of flood and/or back-up private sewer lines in multiple
 2 dwellings and single-family homes where the sewer capacity for such
 3 private sewers has been exceeded.
 4 (b) Grants provided under this section shall finance, at a minimum,
 5 eighty percent of the cost of hazard mitigation and resilience projects
 6 described in paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
 7 5. (a) The division shall establish application procedures and eligi-
 8 bility criteria for loans and grants from the resilient retrofits loan
 9 and grant fund established pursuant to section ninety-nine-ss of the
 10 state finance law. Such eligibility criteria shall require that individ-
 11 ual property owner applicants demonstrate:
 12 (i) A need for a loan or grant to address hazard mitigation; and
 13 (ii) The ability to repay the loan, if required, at a later date.
 14 (b) Loans provided pursuant to this section shall be for a fixed peri-
 15 od.
 16 (c) The resilient retrofits loan and grant program shall also provide
 17 graduated forgivability available to eligible individual property owner
 18 recipients that shall, at a minimum, provide fifty percent loan forgive-
 19 ness for eligible households with annual income equal to or less than
 20 two hundred fifty thousand dollars per year.