NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A5050
SPONSOR: Jacobson
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
relation to the state and municipal facilities program
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The bill would require members of the state legislature to take respon-
sibility for money directed to local governments through the State and
Municipal facilities (SAM) program by prohibiting anonymous SAM grants.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends the urban development corporation act to add a new
subdivision 4 requiring that any grant issued as part of the state and
municipal facilities program shall be sponsored by the governor or shall
have a sponsor from the state senate or the state assembly.
Section 2 sets forth the effective date which is immediately and shall
be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after April 1,
2025.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
State legislators can funnel money to local governments through the
State and Municipal facilities program (SAM) but currently, SAM grants
are not required to have a sponsor in the State Senate or Assembly.
Requiring transparency in spending public money is a vital good govern-
ment reform.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2019-2020: A8233-A - Amend and recommit to Assembly Environmental
Conservation Committee
2021-2022: A695 - Referred to Assembly Environmental Conservation
Committee
S1845 - Referred to Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
Committee
2023-2024: A858 - Referred to Assembly Environmental Conservation
Committee
S441 - Referred to Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
Committee
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been
in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2025.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5050
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 11, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
relation to the state and municipal facilities program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 49 of section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968,
2 constituting the New York state urban development corporation act, is
3 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
4 4. Any grant issued by the dormitory authority or the corporation from
5 the state and municipal facilities program shall be sponsored by the
6 governor or have a sponsor from the state senate or the state assembly.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
8 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2025.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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