What's happening
This bill requires at least $300,000 of unspent state funds to be used for technical uniforms for State Police investigators.
Why it matters
Reallocates leftover state funds. specifically for law enforcement needs, ensuring that unspent budget money isn’t simply rolled over or used elsewhere, but directed to a defined purpose.
Targets operational readiness and professional standards. by mandating that all investigators, senior investigators, and investigative specialists in the State Police receive updated “class B technical uniforms,” which may impact both safety and effectiveness in the field.
Sets a minimum funding threshold ($300,000). , signaling a recognition of significant uniform needs across the State Police investigative ranks and potentially highlighting previously unmet or underfunded equipment requirements.
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- Print number 7921a
- Amend and recommit to ways and means
- Referred to ways and means
- Referred to ways and means
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Fund Police Uniform Upgrades
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7921--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the transfer and appropriation, for the purpose of providing class B technical uniforms for all investigators, senior investigators and investigative specialists in the division of state police, a portion of any unexpended moneys remaining in the state treasury at the end of the 2017-
2018 state fiscal year
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 216 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
4. For the state fiscal year commencing April first, two thousand nineteen, there shall be transferred from any unexpended moneys remaining in the state treasury at the end of the two thousand eighteen-two thousand nineteen state fiscal year, to the division of state police an amount of not less than three hundred thousand dollars, and such transferred moneys shall be appropriated and expended for the purpose of providing class B technical uniforms for all investigators, senior investigators and investigative specialists in the division.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11370-03-8
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