A06737 Summary:

BILL NOA06737A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05741-A
 
SPONSOREnglebright
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §21-a, St Fin L
 
Enacts the "procedure for informed evaluation of state expenditure decreases act of 2016" to require the governor to submit to the legislature and make available to the public evaluations of proposed and enacted state expenditure decreases.
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A06737 Actions:

BILL NOA06737A
 
04/01/2015referred to ways and means
01/06/2016referred to ways and means
01/19/2016amend and recommit to ways and means
01/19/2016print number 6737a
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A06737 Committee Votes:

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A06737 Floor Votes:

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A06737 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6737--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      April 1, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- 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 state finance law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          procedure  for  the  informed evaluation of proposed and enacted state
          expenditure decreases
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "procedure for informed evaluation of  state  expenditure  decreases
     3  act of 2016".
     4    § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that the expenditures
     5  of  state  funds  for  operations, maintenance, programs, activities and
     6  assistance have significant and complex impacts on the economic,  social
     7  and  environmental  conditions  in  both the public and private sectors.
     8  Federal funding and matching funds from municipal and  private  sources,
     9  for  example, can be affected by changes in levels of state expenditures
    10  and negative secondary impacts from cuts like the  failure  to  maintain
    11  state  property  can damage the health, safety and welfare of the people
    12  and economy of the state.
    13    The legislature further finds that during  a  volatile  economic  time
    14  decisions are made to cut or impound expenditures, eliminate or downsize
    15  programs  and/or  lay off state employees without adequate evaluation of
    16  the consequences thereof.
    17    Therefore, the legislature declares that an analytical process  should
    18  be  required and information therefrom should be available to the public
    19  when a decrease in state expenditure  from  funds  appropriated  in  the
    20  immediate  previous  state budget is proposed in a state budget bill, or
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10100-03-6

        A. 6737--A                          2
 
     1  before a reduction in expenditure or  lay  off  of  state  employees  is
     2  imposed during the implementation of an enacted state budget.
     3    §  3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 21-a to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 21-a. Informed evaluation of state  expenditure  decreases.  1.  The
     6  governor  shall  submit  to the chairman of the senate finance committee
     7  and the chairman of the assembly ways and means  committee  for  use  of
     8  such  committees,  and  provide the legislature and the public for their
     9  information, (a) at or prior to the time the  budget  is  submitted,  an
    10  evaluation pursuant to subdivision two of this section of the direct and
    11  indirect  economic,  social and environmental impacts of any decrease in
    12  the amount of the appropriation from the previous fiscal  year  for  any
    13  state  program,  activity or assistance, for local government assistance
    14  or for a public purpose by a not-for-profit organization  supported,  in
    15  whole  or in part, by state funds, and (b) not less than forty-five days
    16  before the implementation  of  the  impoundment  of  appropriated  funds
    17  and/or  layoff of state employees affecting, directly or indirectly, any
    18  state program, activity or assistance, for local  government  assistance
    19  or  for  a public purpose by a not-for-profit organization supported, in
    20  whole or in part, by state funds, an evaluation pursuant to  subdivision
    21  two  of  this  section  of  the direct and indirect economic, social and
    22  environmental impacts thereof.
    23    2. An evaluation of decreases or  elimination  of  state  expenditures
    24  shall include, but not be limited to:
    25    (a)  identification  of whether such state expenditure would have been
    26  used for a statutory mandated purpose, a description of such purpose and
    27  an estimate of financial return from such funding;
    28    (b) identification of whether such state expenditure would  have  been
    29  used for a non-mandated service;
    30    (c)  identification  of  whether  there has been or would be a revenue
    31  generator multiplier greater than the amount of the state expenditure;
    32    (d) identification of the cost to  the  state,  municipalities  and/or
    33  private  sources,  if  any,  that  may result from the decrease in state
    34  funding or employees, including the loss of matching funds from  sources
    35  outside  state  government. In estimating such cost, consideration shall
    36  be taken of the ability of the affected state units and their ability to
    37  sustain the cuts and loss, if any, of revenue to the  state  or  munici-
    38  palities or from the multiplier effect on the private sector; and
    39    (e)  identification of the estimated net benefit to the state treasury
    40  of decreases or elimination of state expenditures and/or the  layoff  of
    41  state employees.
    42    3.  Not  less  than twenty days before such evaluation is submitted to
    43  the legislature, the governor shall cause to be held  a  public  hearing
    44  available by internet webcast on the proposed decrease in state expendi-
    45  ture  and/or  layoff  with  the  opportunity  provided to the public for
    46  comment by electronic mail. The record of and responses to such  hearing
    47  shall  be  included with the submittal of the evaluation to the legisla-
    48  ture and shall be available to the public.
    49    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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