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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10133--A
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       May 9, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        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 March
    25  first of each year relating to  distribution  of  funds  and  grants  to
    26  community  based  organizations  and  such report shall be posted on the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02382-06-2
        A. 10133--A                         2
 
     1  division of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible
     2  to the public.  Such report shall provide a listing  of  recipients,  by

     3  zip  code,  of  grants,  awards  or  funds appropriated for services and
     4  programs  which  are  made  to organizations which provide services on a
     5  local basis pursuant to programs established by law.
     6    § 2. Section 14 of the state finance law,  the  closing  paragraph  as
     7  further  amended  by  section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of
     8  2011, is amended to read as follows:
     9    § 14. Departmental statements. 1. In addition to the annual department
    10  reports prescribed by law, the head of each department of the state,  on
    11  or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, shall submit to the
    12  governor  a  statement  of  the  sources, amounts and disposition of all
    13  money received by such department, its divisions,  bureaus  or  officers
    14  for  the  preceding  fiscal  year other than money appropriated for such

    15  department by the legislature or money which was paid by such department
    16  into the treasury. Such statement shall include  a  description  of  the
    17  nature  and  the amount of each fund, if any, then under the supervision
    18  or control of such department or the head thereof or  under  the  super-
    19  vision  or  control  of any division, bureau, commission, board or other
    20  organization therein or under the supervision or control of the head  or
    21  any  other officer of such division, bureau, commission, board or organ-
    22  ization, which was derived from any source whether or not  deposited  in
    23  the  treasury,  a  citation  of  the statute authorizing the creation or
    24  establishment of each such  fund  and  the  nature  and  amount  of  any
    25  payments  made  therefrom during the preceding fiscal year. The director
    26  of the budget in the executive department shall make rules, which  shall

    27  be  approved  by  the governor, regulating the form and contents of such
    28  statements. Copies of such statements shall be simultaneously  furnished
    29  to  the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means commit-
    30  tee for their information.
    31    2. The governor, in such form and with  such  explanation  as  he  may
    32  desire,  shall  transmit  to  the legislature, with the annual budget, a
    33  recapitulation or summary of the information contained  in  such  state-
    34  ments  arranged  under  appropriate  headings  for  each department. The
    35  provisions of this section shall not apply to any funds received by  the
    36  superintendent of financial services [or the superintendent of financial
    37  services]  in  a fiduciary capacity or to the state teachers' retirement
    38  fund, or any state employees' retirement  and  pension  fund,  but  such

    39  exemption  from  the  application  of  this section shall not affect any
    40  other provision of law requiring a report or statement of such funds.
    41    3.  In addition to the annual report required  by  this  section,  the
    42  division  of  the budget shall make a report to the legislature by March
    43  first of each year relating to  distribution  of  funds  and  grants  to
    44  community  based  organizations  and  such report shall be posted on the
    45  division of the budget website in a manner which is clear and accessible
    46  to the public.  Such report shall provide a listing  of  recipients,  by
    47  zip  code,  of  grants,  awards  or  funds appropriated for services and
    48  programs which are made to organizations which  provide  services  on  a
    49  local basis pursuant to programs established by law.

    50    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.