New York A 4271: Awards grants to municipalities for capital improvement projects; appropriation

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A04271 Summary:

BILL NOA04271 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01637

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SPONSORJensen

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Amd §54, St Fin L

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Awards grants to municipalities for any non-transportation related capital improvement projects with a maximum cumulative grant award not exceeding $250,000; makes an appropriation therefor.

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BILL NOA04271 

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01/31/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4271

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 31, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to awarding grants to
 municipalities for capital improvement projects; and making an appro-
 priation therefor

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 54 of the state finance law is
 2 amended by adding a new paragraph w to read as follows:
 3 w. Local government capital improvement grant program. (i) (1) For the
 4 purposes of this paragraph, "municipality" and "municipalities" shall
 5 mean any city, town or village that has a population of less than seven
 6 thousand five hundred.
 7 (2) For the purposes of this paragraph, "total expenditures" shall
 8 mean the total expenditures for a municipality as reported to the state
 9 comptroller.
 10 (3) For the purposes of this paragraph, "capital improvement projects"
 11 shall mean any non-transportation related capital improvement project on
 12 property owned by a municipality that has a total cost of one hundred
 13 thousand dollars or higher and such project exceeds ten percent of such
 14 municipality's total expenditures.
 15 (ii) Within the annual amounts appropriated therefor, the secretary of
 16 state may award matching grants to municipalities to cover costs associ-
 17 ated with capital improvement projects.
 18 (iii) The maximum cumulative grant award for a local government capi-
 19 tal improvement grant shall not exceed two hundred fifty thousand
 20 dollars.
 21 (iv) Matching funds equal to at least fifty percent of the total cost
 22 of the capital improvement project under the grant approved by the
 23 department of state shall be required to receive a local government
 24 capital improvement grant.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04896-01-5

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 1 (v) Within one week of the receipt of an application, the department
 2 of state shall review the application to ensure the applicant has filed
 3 the correct application, and to determine if any required sections of
 4 the application contain no information. Within one business day of
 5 determining an applicant has filed an incorrect application, or deter-
 6 mining an application contains no information in a section required to
 7 contain information, the department shall so notify the applicant.
 8 Applicants shall be permitted to amend an application found to be miss-
 9 ing information, and such application shall be reconsidered for approval
 10 if it is amended by the application deadline. If an applicant has
 11 submitted an incorrect application, the applicant may submit the correct
 12 application to the appropriate program by the deadline for such program
 13 for consideration. Under no circumstances shall this subparagraph be
 14 deemed to require the extension of any application deadline established
 15 by the department, nor shall it obligate the department to conduct a
 16 substantive review of the contents of any application outside of the
 17 procedures established by the department for the purposes of maintaining
 18 the competitive integrity of the grant program.
 19 § 2. The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), or so much thereof
 20 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of state
 21 out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the cred-
 22 it of the local