New York Senate Bill S01829 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1829 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the everyone can play grant program 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 v to read as follows: 3 v. Everyone can play grant program. (i) When used in this paragraph, 4 unless otherwise expressly stated: 5 (1) "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, town, or village. 6 (2) "Recreation facility" shall mean playgrounds, athletic fields, and 7 recreation centers, together with necessary buildings, structures, and 8 equipment. 9 (3) "Handicap accessible aspects" shall mean playground equipment 10 approved in accordance with accessibility guidelines pursuant to the 11 federal Americans with Disabilities Act of nineteen hundred ninety, as 12 amended, which shall include but not be limited to, playground struc- 13 tures, swings, slides, climbers, and spring riders. 14 (ii) Within the annual amounts appropriated therefor, the secretary of 15 state may award competitive grants of up to one hundred thousand dollars 16 to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap acces- 17 sible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06078-01-3