A 3500: Restores the authorized reimbursement rate paid to governmental entities for enforcement of navigation laws to 75% of authorized expenditures.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3500 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMPSON, BENDETT, DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to the authorized reimbursement rate paid to governmental entities for local navigation enforcement expenditures 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 79-b of the navigation law, as 2 amended by section 1 of part D of chapter 109 of the laws of 2010, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. The amount of state aid to be allocated to eligible governmental 5 entities pursuant to this article shall be determined by the commission- 6 er as hereinafter provided. The commissioner shall determine the 7 percentage proportion which the authorized expenditures of each individ- 8 ual entity, not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars for each county 9 including municipalities therein, shall bear to the total authorized 10 expenditures of all entities. Such percentage proportion shall then be 11 applied against an amount equal to one-half of the total of the amount 12 received by the state in each preceding program year in vessel registra- 13 tion fees as provided in section twenty-two hundred fifty-one of the 14 vehicle and traffic law, less no more than thirty percent, subject to 15 appropriation, which may be used by the commissioner and the commission- 16 er of motor vehicles for administrative costs of the program, including 17 training and equipment, and by the department of environmental conserva- 18 tion, the division of state police and other state agencies, subject to 19 the approval of the commissioner, for the purposes of this article, plus 20 the entire amount received pursuant to subdivision nine of section 21 forty-four of this chapter. The amount thus determined shall constitute 22 the maximum amount of state aid to which each such entity shall be enti- 23 tled; provided, however, that [no entity shall receive] state aid shall 24 be provided in an amount [in excess] of [fifty] seventy-five percent of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00772-01-5 
 A. 3500 2 1 its authorized expenditures as approved by the commissioner for such 2 program year. The commissioner shall certify to the comptroller the 3 amount thus determined for each eligible local governmental entity as 4 the amount of state aid to be apportioned to such eligible local govern- 5 mental entity. The allocation of state aid to any county, town or 6 village within the Lake George park shall not be reduced because of the 7 allocation of state aid to the Lake George park commission. Of the 8 remaining funds received by the state for the registration of vessels as 9 provided in section twenty-two hundred fifty-one of the vehicle and 10 traffic law, no less than six percent shall be made available to the 11 commissioner for the expenses of the office in providing navigation law 12 enforcement training and administering the provisions of this section. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 14 the date on which it shall have become a law.