Repeals certain provisions relating to the assessment and reimbursement of state expenditures and requires reimbursement of monies previously paid.

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S2682-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
• Jan 4, 2012: returned to senate
• Jan 4, 2012: died in assembly
• Mar 9, 2011: referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
• Mar 9, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Mar 9, 2011: PASSED SENATE
• Mar 7, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Mar 3, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Mar 2, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.148
• Jan 28, 2011: REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

S2682-2011 Meetings

Corporations, Authorities and Commissions: Mar 2, 2011

S2682-2011 Calendars

Active List: Mar 9, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 3, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 7, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 8, 2011 , Floor Calendar: Mar 9, 2011

S2682-2011 Votes

S2682-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2682

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to repeal section 2975-a of the public authorities law,
relating to the assessment and
reimbursement of state expenditures

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
An act to repeal part UU of Chapter 59
of the Laws of 2009; relating to the cost recovery assessment placed
on IDAs. The 2009-2010 State Budget contained a maximum $5 million
statewide "cost recovery" assessment on IDAs to be calculated by
multiplying the gross revenues of each IDA for 2008 by 4.7 percent.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
This legislation will repeal certain
provisions relating to the assessment and reimbursement of state
expenditures and requires reimbursement of monies previously paid.
All monies paid by or on behalf of any industrial agency or authority
as of the effective date of this act to reimburse to New York state
an allocable share of state governmental costs attributable to the
provision of services to industrial development agencies as
determined in section 2975-a of the public authorities law shall be
reimbursed to the paying entity within ninety days of the effective
date of this act.

JUSTIFICATION:
IDA fee-based income is used to support important
local job creation initiatives, including paying for the operation of
the IDA; paying for infrastructure of economic development projects;
building industrial and technology parks; administering business
marketing programs; and conducting job fairs. The IDA tax is
arbitrary, unfair and severely flawed. The tax is applied against
200B revenue for 2009-2010 services provided to IDAs and there is no
conceivable way an IDA could have budgeted for this charge. The fee is
being imposed upon revenues statutorily, or agreed upon as
"pass-through" revenues and do not reflect real revenue of the IDA.
IDAs are required to pay the Bond Insurance Charge, enacted as a cost
recovery source of revenue, thereby making the subject tax
duplicative in purpose and excessive in application furthermore the
$5 million collected from the "cost recovery" charge is more than 300
percent greater than the total budget of the Authority Budget Office
and the charge does not reflect any rational basis for actual costs
incurred by the state for providing services to IDAs. This tax is an
unfunded mandate which will require municipalities to make larger
contributions in support of their economic development
organization.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2010 - S.7073/A.10099 -- CORPS/Corps

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
This bill will result in the loss of $5 million to
the General Fund annually.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall be
deemed to have be in full force and effect on and
after April 1, 2009.

S2682-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    2682

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              January 28, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced by Sens. RANZENHOFER, SALAND -- read twice and ordered print-
    ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,
    Authorities and Commissions

  AN  ACT to repeal section 2975-a of the public authorities law, relating
    to the assessment and reimbursement of state expenditures

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Section 2975-a of the public authorities law is REPEALED.
    S  2.  All  monies  paid by or on behalf of any industrial development
  agency or authority as of the effective date of this act to reimburse to
  New York state an allocable share of state governmental costs  attribut-
  able  to the provision of services to industrial development agencies as
  determined in section 2975-a of the  public  authorities  law  shall  be
  reimbursed to the paying entity within ninety days of the effective date
  of this act.
    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2009.





   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD02424-01-1