NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4453
SPONSOR: Gallahan TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a service
center for independent living to be located in the county of Ontario
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a service
center for independent living to be located in the county of Ontario
PURPOSE:
To include Ontario County on the list of service centers for independent
living eligible for Education Department funding.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends section 1124 of the education law to add the County of
Ontario as a service center for independent living. Section 2: Identi-
fies the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
The state legislature recognizes the important work of independent
living centers by appropriating funding for the 35 existing independent
living centers. Because no center in Ontario County is designated as a
service center, Ontario County did not receive state funding. In order
to provide expanded services for its disabled population, Ontario County
seeks state identification and support for a service center for inde-
pendent living.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2023-24 A.2927
2021-22: A.4914
2019-20: A.4682
2017-18: A.6126
2015-16: A.7400
2011-12: A.1257
2009-10: A.3104
2007-08: A.10440-A
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To the extent of and within the amounts appropriated therefore.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4453
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a service
center for independent living to be located in the county of Ontario
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1124 of the education law, as
2 amended by section 28 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 4. Additional service centers shall be located in the cities of
5 Niagara Falls, Olean, Troy, Amsterdam, Newburgh, Corning, Ithaca, Cort-
6 land, Auburn, Watertown, Plattsburgh, Batavia, Massena and Glens Falls,
7 the counties of Delaware, Ontario and Rockland, the county of Orange, in
8 either the city of Middletown or Port Jervis or in the town of Deerpark,
9 Greenville, Mount Hope, Warwick or Wawayanda or in the village of Gosh-
10 en, in the county of New York to serve the Harlem community, and in the
11 counties of Putnam, Sullivan and Herkimer.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
13 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05958-01-5
