Requires written agreements between the governor and the legislature that relate to any budget appropriations be included in the synopsis of requests for appropriations for the state budget and published on the public website of the division of the budget.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4993
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to requiring certain
agreements be included in the synopsis of requests for appropriations
for the state budget
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 22-a of the state finance law, as added by chapter
2 762 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 22-a. Synopsis of requests for appropriations; submittal by budget
4 director. The director of the budget shall, within thirty days following
5 receipt of the requested appropriations pursuant to the first paragraph
6 of section one of article seven of the constitution, submit to the
7 chairs of the assembly ways and means committee and the senate finance
8 committee a synopsis of such requests, including but not limited to: (a)
9 a schedule of appropriations requested as compared to the prior year,
10 (b) a brief description of the department's, division's or office's
11 priorities for receiving funding, [and] (c) a discussion of major chang-
12 es or initiatives recommended for the ensuing fiscal year, and (d) all
13 written agreements between the governor and the legislature that relate
14 to any budget appropriations, such written agreements shall also be
15 published on the public website of the division of the budget.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09745-01-5
