A11600 • 2025

Establishes the everyone can play grant program

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Sponsor: Josh Jensen
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Establishes the everyone can play grant program

Establishes the everyone can play grant program Establishes the everyone can play grant program which allows for grants up to $100,000 to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap accessible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities.

What This Bill Does

Establishes the everyone can play grant program Establishes the everyone can play grant program which allows for grants up to $100,000 to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap accessible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

Official Summary Text

Establishes the everyone can play grant program
Establishes the everyone can play grant program which allows for grants up to $100,000 to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap accessible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11600

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 5, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jensen) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  establishing  the
          everyone can play grant program

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 54 of the state  finance  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph w to read as follows:
     3    W.  EVERYONE  CAN PLAY GRANT PROGRAM. (I) WHEN USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH,
     4  UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY STATED:
     5    (1) "MUNICIPALITY" SHALL MEAN A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE.
     6    (2) "RECREATION FACILITY" SHALL MEAN PLAYGROUNDS, ATHLETIC FIELDS, AND
     7  RECREATION CENTERS, TOGETHER WITH NECESSARY BUILDINGS,  STRUCTURES,  AND
     8  EQUIPMENT.
     9    (3)  "HANDICAP  ACCESSIBLE  ASPECTS"  SHALL  MEAN PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT
    10  APPROVED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ACCESSIBILITY  GUIDELINES  PURSUANT  TO  THE
    11  FEDERAL  AMERICANS  WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY, AS
    12  AMENDED, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED  TO,  PLAYGROUND  STRUC-
    13  TURES, SWINGS, SLIDES, CLIMBERS, AND SPRING RIDERS.
    14    (II) WITHIN THE ANNUAL AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED THEREFOR, THE SECRETARY OF
    15  STATE MAY AWARD COMPETITIVE GRANTS OF UP TO ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
    16  TO MUNICIPALITIES TO COVER THE COSTS FOR THE CREATION OF HANDICAP ACCES-
    17  SIBLE ASPECTS IN NEW OR EXISTING RECREATION FACILITIES.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08842-01-5