What's happening
This bill requires counties with cities over 125,000 people to share wireless surcharge funds with those cities based on their share of 911 calls.
Why it matters
Ensures cities with large populations directly receive funds based on their actual use of the 911 system, potentially leading to more equitable and efficient support for local emergency services.
May improve the quality and responsiveness of public safety communications within large cities by giving them a dedicated share of wireless surcharge revenues to manage their own 911 infrastructure.
Requires counties to be more transparent and accountable in their allocation of surcharge funds, as distributions must now reflect the proportion of 911 calls managed by each city.
Could shift local budget priorities, prompting both counties and qualifying cities to more closely track and report 911 call data, influencing future funding and investments in emergency communication systems.
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Share 911 Surcharge Funds
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History
- Enacting clause stricken
- Referred to local governments
- Referred to local governments
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7680
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. MAYER, PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to the allocation of the funds from wireless communications surcharges imposed by a county containing a city having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more persons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 186-g of the tax law, as added by section 3 of part EEE of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
9. (a) All surcharge monies remitted to the commissioner under this section shall be expended only upon authorization of the legislative body of a city or county that imposes the surcharges pursuant to the authority of subdivision two of this section, and only for payment of system costs, eligible wireless 911 service costs, or other costs associated with the administration, design, installation, construction, operation, or maintenance of public safety communications networks or a system to provide enhanced wireless 911 service serving such city or county, including, but not limited to, hardware, software, consultants, financing and other acquisition costs. Such city or county shall separately account for and keep adequate books and records of the amount and object or purpose of all expenditures of all such monies. If, at the end of any fiscal year, the total amount of all such monies exceeds the amount necessary for payment of the above mentioned costs in such fiscal year, such excess shall be reserved and carried over for the payment of those costs in the following fiscal year.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, a county that includes a city having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more people shall distribute a portion of the surcharge funds allocated to the county to such city for the purposes of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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the payment of costs related to maintaining such city's public safety communications network. The amount of such portion shall be calculated by determining what the percentage of the actual, annual number of 911 calls handled by such city is to the actual, annual number of 911 calls handled by the county, and allocating the funding accordingly.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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