What's happening
This bill requires all New York municipalities with populations over 200,000 to receive equal, increased per capita state aid.
Why it matters
Addresses funding disparities by ensuring that all large municipalities (over 200,000 residents) receive the same, highest per capita state aid available among their peers. This could reduce historical imbalances where cities of similar size received different levels of support.
Increases state financial support for many cities, which could help maintain or expand essential services like public safety, education, and infrastructure—especially in underfunded urban areas.
Ties funding to population, making aid distribution more predictable and transparent for city governments and residents, and potentially incentivizing accurate population reporting and census participation.
Contains a safeguard: if there aren’t enough state funds to fully cover the increased aid, all eligible municipalities will receive a proportional share, avoiding a “winner-take-all” scenario and spreading limited resources more evenly.
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Who cares
Municipal governments serving more than 200,000 residents
The bill would equalize their per-capita aid at the highest per-capita amount calculated for a municipality above that population threshold, beginning with the state fiscal year starting April 1, 2019.
Municipal budget officials
Municipalities eligible for additional aid would receive a pro rata share of available funds if funding is insufficient to cover the authorized increases.
Residents of municipalities with more than 200,000 people
Their municipalities could receive more state aid if their current per-capita amount falls below the highest amount among qualifying municipalities.
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Increase City Aid Funding
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History
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2112
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to aid and incentives for municipalities with populations of greater than two hundred thousand
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph e of subdivision 10 of section 54 of the state finance law, as amended by section 2 of part GG of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is relettered subparagraph (vii) and amended and a new subparagraph (vi) is added to read as follows:
(vi) Commencing with the state fiscal year commencing on April first, two thousand nineteen and thereafter, all municipalities with a population of greater than two hundred thousand shall receive equal per capita aid provided pursuant to this subdivision. Per capita aid shall be increased for all municipalities with a population of greater than two hundred thousand to the highest per capita aid calculated pursuant to this subdivision for a municipality with a population greater than two hundred thousand.
(vii) If sufficient funds are not available for additional aid in the amount authorized pursuant to subparagraphs (ii), (iii), (iv) [and], (v) and (vi) of this paragraph, additional aid shall be apportioned to each municipality eligible for such aid based on the municipality's pro rata share of available funds.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00440-01-9
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