New York A 6496: Provides relief on statewide central register clearance fees for tax exempt organizations

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A06496 Summary:

BILL NOA06496 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00995

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SPONSORSlater

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COSPNSRMorinello, Smullen, McDonough, Hawley

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §226, Eld L

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Establishes a municipal senior center capital support program in the office for the aging to assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the purchase of senior buses; directs the director of the office for the aging to develop an application and establish criteria for the disbursement of grants to eligible municipalities for the purpose of procuring senior buses; makes an appropriation.

Go to top A06496 Actions:

BILL NOA06496 

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03/05/2025referred to aging

01/07/2026referred to aging

05/20/2026held for consideration in aging

Go to topA06496 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:AGING Chair:Seawright 
DATE:05/20/2026AYE/NAY:18/10 Action: Held for Consideration SeawrightAyeBrook-KrasnyNay

RamosAyeSmithNay

SternAyeGallahanNay

FallAyeBendettNay

RajkumarAyeChangNay

ForrestExcusedNovakhovNay

ZinermanAyeDiPietroNay

GibbsAyeChludzinskiNay

LucasAyeNorberNay

EachusNay

ZaccaroAye

ShresthaAye

BergerAye

RagaAye

GriffinAye

WrightExcused

YegerAye

HooksAye

TorresAye

CashmanAye

MorenoAye

Go to topA06496 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA06496 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6496

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Aging

 AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to establishing a municipal
 senior center capital support program in the office for the aging to
 assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the
 purchase of senior buses; and making an appropriation therefor

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

 1 Section 1. The elder law is amended by adding a new section 226 to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 226. Municipal senior center capital support program. 1. There is
 4 hereby created within the office for the aging a municipal senior center
 5 capital support program to assist municipalities in the purchase of
 6 vehicles for the transportation of senior citizens residing within the
 7 boundaries of the municipality to qualifying events as determined by the
 8 director.
 9 2. Within amounts specifically appropriated therefore, the director
 10 shall award grants to a municipality in an amount not to exceed one
 11 hundred thousand dollars per municipality for the acquisition of buses
 12 or other means of transportation related equipment for the purpose of
 13 transportation of senior citizens. Such buses and/or equipment shall
 14 have a useful life of not less than five years.
 15 3. No funds authorized under this section may be used as a required
 16 match or be considered a local share to any other state program or to
 17 leverage state aid or grants.
 18 4. (a) The director of the state office for the aging shall develop an
 19 application for use by eligible municipalities to apply for a grant, a
 20 list of approved transportation equipment, and criteria for the
 21 disbursement of funds authorized to an eligible municipality.
 22 (b) The director shall promulgate rules and regulations as necessary
 23 to carry out the provisions of this section.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02819-01-5

 A. 6496 2

 1 5. For the purposes of this section, "municipality" means a municipal
 2 corporation as defined pursuant to section one hundred nineteen-n of the
 3 general municipal law.
 4 § 2. The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000), or so much thereof
 5 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the state office for the
 6 aging out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund, not
 7 otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose
 8 of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable
 9 on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
 10 approved by the director of the state office for the aging in the manner
 11 prescribed by law.
 12 § 3. Severability clause. If any cl