NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A3777
SPONSOR: Paulin TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to making a technical
correction to the designation of the animal shelter regulation fund
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to make a technical change to the state
finance law to ensure that funds collected pursuant to Article 26-c of
the Agriculture and Markets Law are allocated to the animal shelter
regulation fund.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 provides the correct reference to the "animal shelter regu-
lation fund".
Section 2 provides the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
The intent of § 99-pp as added by Chapter 683 of the Laws of 2022 was to
allocate all monies collected pursuant to Article 26-c of the Agricul-
ture and Market law to the animal shelter regulation fund. Due to a
technical oversight, the current law inadvertently requires any interest
received by the Comptroller to be retained in the "pet dealer licensing
fund" instead of the "animal shelter regulation fund." This legislation
fixes this technical error.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
Undetermined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3777
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to making a technical
correction to the designation of the animal shelter regulation fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 99-pp of the state finance law, as
2 added by chapter 683 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. Monies of the fund shall be expended solely for the purposes of
4 carrying out the provisions of article twenty-six-C of the agriculture
5 and markets law. Monies shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and
6 warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers approved by the commission-
7 er of agriculture and markets. Any interest received by the comptroller
8 on monies on deposit in the [pet dealer licensing] animal shelter regu-
9 lation fund shall be retained in and become part of such fund.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
11 manner as section 9 of chapter 683 of the laws of 2022 takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03881-01-3
