New York S 5733: Prohibits members of the legislature from obtaining funding to provide to any business entities in which such members, domestic partners or certain relatives hold official or legal positions

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S05733 Summary:

BILL NOS05733 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSCARCELLA-SPANTON

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §16, Veterans' Services L

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Relates to the cost of maintenance and operation of veterans' service agencies.

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02/28/2025REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

05/28/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5733

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
 land Security and Military Affairs

 AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to the cost of
 maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 16 of the veterans' services law
 2 is amended to read as follows:
 3 1. A local director shall designate the location of the local and
 4 branch offices of the local veterans' service agency within [his or her]
 5 such director's jurisdiction, which offices shall be open during conven-
 6 ient hours. The cost of maintenance and operation of a county veterans'
 7 service agency shall be a county charge and the cost of maintenance and
 8 operation of a city veterans' service agency shall be a city charge,
 9 excepting that the state commissioner with the approval of the veterans'
 10 services commission shall allot and pay, from state moneys made avail-
 11 able to [him or her] the state commissioner for such purposes, to each
 12 county veterans' service agency and each city veterans' service agency,
 13 an amount equal to [fifty per centum of its expenditures for maintenance
 14 and operation approved by the state commissioner, provided that in no
 15 event shall the amount allotted and paid for such approved expenditures
 16 incurred in any given year exceed (1) in the case of any county veter-
 17 ans' service agency in a county having a population of not more than one
 18 hundred thousand or in the case of any city veterans' service agency in
 19 a city having a population of not more than one hundred thousand, the
 20 sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, nor (2) in the case of any county
 21 veterans' service agency in a county having a population in excess of
 22 one hundred thousand excluding the population of any city therein which
 23 has a city veterans' service agency, the sum of twenty-five thousand
 24 dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars for

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05129-01-5

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 1 each one hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the population
 2 of the county in excess of one hundred thousand excluding the population
 3 of any city therein which has a city veterans' service agency, nor (3)
 4 in the case of any city veterans' service agency in a city having a
 5 population in excess of one hundred thousand, the sum of twenty-five
 6 thousand dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand
 7 dollars for each one hundred thousand, or major portion thereof, of the
 8 population of the city in excess of one hundred thousand. Such popu-
 9 lation shall be certified in the same manner as provided by section
 10 fifty-four of the state finance law] one-half of one percent of the
 11 previous year's geographic distribution of veterans' administration
 12 expenditures for each county for maintenance and operations approved by
 13 the state director.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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