Requires reports by state agencies relating to certain grants and expenditures made to community based organizations; requires listing by zip code of such grants.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
9373
IN ASSEMBLY
April 23, 2014
___________
Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation
to requiring reports by state agencies relating to certain grants and
expenditures made to community based organizations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 164 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 833
2 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 164. Reports by and to the department. 1. Each department, other
4 than the executive department, shall make an annual report to the gover-
5 nor and legislature on or before the fifteenth day of May, for the
6 preceding calendar year. It shall contain such information concerning
7 the department and its several divisions, bureaus, offices, agencies and
8 institutions, and their activities and affairs, and such recommenda-
9 tions, as the head of the department shall deem necessary or proper, and
10 any matters required by express provision of law to be included in such
11 report. A department also shall make such other and special reports as
12 the governor or either house of the legislature may require. From time
13 to time, the head of a department may require from any board, commission
14 or other body in the department or from any subordinate officer or
15 employee, division or bureau of the department, or from any institution
16 subject to the supervision of the department, or from any agency of the
17 department, such reports or information as such head may deem necessary.
18 Unless expressly authorized by the head of the department, there shall
19 be hereafter no separate report, annual or otherwise, directly to the
20 legislature or governor by any such board, commission, body, officer,
21 division, bureau, institution or agency notwithstanding any existing
22 provision of law authorizing or requiring such report.
23 2. In addition to the annual report required by this section, the
24 division of the budget shall make a report to the legislature by Septem-
25 ber first of each year relating to distribution of funds and grants to
26 community based organizations as defined in section one hundred fifty-
27 nine-e of this chapter and such report shall be posted on the division
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04045-06-4
A. 9373 2
1 of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible to the
2 public. Such report shall provide a listing of recipients, by zip code,
3 of grants, awards or funds appropriated for services and programs which
4 are made to organizations which provide services on a local basis pursu-
5 ant to programs established by law.
6 § 2. Section 14 of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 155 of
7 the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
8 § 14. Departmental statements. 1. In addition to the annual department
9 reports prescribed by law, the head of each department of the state, on
10 or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, shall submit to the
11 governor a statement of the sources, amounts and disposition of all
12 money received by such department, its divisions, bureaus or officers
13 for the preceding fiscal year other than money appropriated for such
14 department by the legislature or money that was paid by such department
15 into the treasury. Such statement shall include a description of the
16 nature and the amount of each fund, if any, then under the supervision
17 or control of such department or the head thereof or under the super-
18 vision or control of any division, bureau, commission, board or other
19 organization therein or under the supervision or control of the head or
20 any other officer of such division, bureau, commission, board or organ-
21 ization, which was derived from any source whether or not deposited in
22 the treasury, a citation of the statute authorizing the creation or
23 establishment of each such fund and the nature and amount of any
24 payments made therefrom during the preceding fiscal year. The director
25 of the budget in the executive department shall make rules, which shall
26 be approved by the governor, regulating the form and contents of such
27 statements. Copies of such statements shall be simultaneously furnished
28 to the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means commit-
29 tee for their information.
30 2. The governor, in such form and with such explanation as the gover-
31 nor may desire, shall transmit to the legislature, with the annual budg-
32 et, a recapitulation or summary of the information contained in such
33 statements arranged under appropriate headings for each department. The
34 provisions of this section shall not apply to any funds received by the
35 superintendent of financial services in a fiduciary capacity or to the
36 state teachers' retirement fund, or any state employees' retirement and
37 pension fund, but such exemption from the application of this section
38 shall not affect any other provision of law requiring a report or state-
39 ment of such funds.
40 3. In addition to the annual report required by this section, the
41 division of the budget shall make a report to the legislature by Septem-
42 ber first of each year relating to distribution of funds and grants to
43 community based organizations as defined in section one hundred fifty-
44 nine-e of the executive law and such report shall be posted on the divi-
45 sion of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible to
46 the public. Such report shall provide a listing of recipients, by zip
47 code, of grants, awards or funds appropriated for services and programs
48 which are made to organizations which provide services on a local basis
49 pursuant to programs established by law.
50 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
