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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8919
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 28, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- (at request of the Governor) -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Rules
 
        AN  ACT making appropriations for the support of government; and provid-
          ing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Legislative  intent.  The  legislature  hereby  finds and
     2  declares that the enactment of these appropriations provides  sufficient
     3  authority  to the comptroller for the purpose of making payments for the
     4  purposes described herein until such time as appropriation bills submit-
     5  ted by the governor pursuant to article VII of  the  state  constitution
     6  for  the support of government for the state fiscal year beginning April
     7  1, 2024 are enacted.
     8    § 2. The amounts specified in this section,  or  so  much  thereof  as
     9  shall  be  sufficient  to  accomplish the purposes designated, is hereby
    10  appropriated and authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided,  to  the
    11  public  officers  and  for  the purpose specified, which amount shall be
    12  available for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.

    13                     ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
 
    14  For  the  purpose  of  making  payments  for
    15    personal  service,  including  liabilities
    16    incurred prior to April 1,  2024,  on  the
    17    payrolls  scheduled  to be paid during the
    18    period April 1 through April  4,  2024  to
    19    state officers and employees of the execu-
    20    tive   branch.   This  appropriation  also
    21    includes funding  for  payment  of  health
    22    care  and mental hygiene bonuses to eligi-
    23    ble  state  employees,  and  payments  for
    24    services  performed  by  mentally  ill  or
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD12030-01-4
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     1    developmentally disabled persons  who  are
     2    employed in state-operated special employ-
     3    ment,  work-for-pay  or sheltered workshop
     4    programs ................................... 213,500,000
     5                                              --------------
 
     6    § 3. The amount specified in this section, or so much thereof as shall
     7  be sufficient to accomplish the purpose designated, is hereby  appropri-
     8  ated  and  authorized  to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the public
     9  officers and for the purpose specified, which amount shall be  available
    10  for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
 
    11                     ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
 
    12  For  the  payment  of  state  operations non
    13    personal service liabilities to the execu-
    14    tive branch,  including  the  comptroller,
    15    and  the attorney general, incurred in the
    16    ordinary course of  business,  during  the
    17    period  April  1  through  April  4, 2024,
    18    pursuant to existing  state  law  and  for
    19    purposes for which the legislature author-
    20    ized  the expenditure of moneys during the
    21    2023-2024  state  fiscal  year;  provided,
    22    however,  that  nothing  contained  herein
    23    shall be deemed to limit or  restrict  the
    24    power or authority of state departments or
    25    agencies  to  conduct  their activities or
    26    operations  in  accordance  with  existing
    27    law,  and  further  provided  that nothing
    28    contained herein shall be deemed to super-
    29    sede, nullify or modify the provisions  of
    30    section   40  of  the  state  finance  law
    31    prescribing when appropriations  made  for
    32    the 2023-2024 state fiscal year shall have
    33    ceased to have force and effect ............. 10,000,000
    34                                              --------------
 
    35    §  4.  The  amounts  specified  in this section, or so much thereof as
    36  shall be sufficient to accomplish the  purposes  designated,  is  hereby
    37  appropriated  and  authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the
    38  public officers and for the purposes specified, which  amount  shall  be
    39  available for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
 
    40             MISCELLANEOUS -- ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
 
    41                            GENERAL STATE CHARGES
 
    42                              STATE OPERATIONS
    43  GENERAL STATE CHARGES ......................................  16,770,000
    44                                                            --------------
 
    45    General Fund
    46    State Purposes Account - 10050
        S. 8919                             3

     1  For  employee  fringe  benefits according to
     2    the following project  schedule  including
     3    those   benefits   which  are  related  to
     4    employees paid from  funds,  accounts,  or
     5    programs  where the division of the budget
     6    has issued waivers .......................... 16,020,000
 
     7                Project Schedule
     8  PROJECT                               AMOUNT
     9  --------------------------------------------
    10  For the  state's  contribution
    11    to   the   social   security
    12    contribution fund ............. 16,000,000
    13  For  the  state's   share   of
    14    contributions  to the volun-
    15    tary  defined   contribution
    16    plan   made   on  behalf  of
    17    eligible employees  pursuant
    18    to chapter 18 of the laws of
    19    2012  who  elect  to partic-
    20    ipate in such plan  and  who
    21    are  not  otherwise eligible
    22    to participate in  the  SUNY
    23    optional retirement program ....... 20,000
    24                                --------------
    25       Project schedule total ....  16,020,000
    26                                --------------
 
    27  For the payment of the metropolitan commuter
    28    transportation  mobility  tax  pursuant to
    29    article 23 of the  tax  law  as  added  by
    30    chapter  25  of the laws of 2009 on behalf
    31    of the state  employees  employed  in  the
    32    metropolitan    commuter    transportation
    33    district ....................................... 750,000
    34                                              --------------
 
    35    § 5. The amounts specified in this section,  or  so  much  thereof  as
    36  shall  be  sufficient  to  accomplish the purposes designated, is hereby
    37  appropriated and authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided,  to  the
    38  public  officers  and  for the purposes specified, which amount shall be
    39  available for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
 
    40                            DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
 
    41                              AID TO LOCALITIES
 
    42  CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM .......................... 4,280,000
    43                                                            --------------
 
    44    Special Revenue Funds - Federal
    45    Federal USDA-Food and Nutrition Services Fund
    46    Federal Food and Nutrition Services Account - 25022
 
    47  For various  federal  food  and  nutritional
    48    services.  The  moneys hereby appropriated
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     1    shall be available for payment  of  finan-
     2    cial assistance heretofore accrued (26986) ... 4,280,000
     3                                              --------------
 
     4    §  6.  The  amounts  specified  in this section, or so much thereof as
     5  shall be sufficient to accomplish the  purposes  designated,  is  hereby
     6  appropriated  and  authorized to be paid as hereinafter provided, to the
     7  public officers and for the purposes specified, which  amount  shall  be
     8  available for the state fiscal year beginning April 1, 2024.
 
     9                             DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
    10                              AID TO LOCALITIES
 
    11  UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFIT PROGRAM ..................... 180,000,000
    12                                                            --------------
 
    13    Enterprise Funds
    14    Unemployment Insurance Benefit Fund
    15    Unemployment Insurance Benefit Account - 50650
 
    16  For  payment of unemployment insurance bene-
    17    fits pursuant to article 18 of  the  labor
    18    law   or  as  authorized  by  the  federal
    19    government through the disaster  unemploy-
    20    ment  assistance  program,  the  emergency
    21    unemployment  compensation  program,   the
    22    extended   benefit  program,  the  federal
    23    additional  compensation  program  or  any
    24    other  federally funded unemployment bene-
    25    fit program (34787) ........................ 180,000,000
    26                                              --------------
 
    27    § 7. No expenditure may be made from any appropriation  in  this  act,
    28  until  a  certificate of approval has been issued by the director of the
    29  budget and a copy of such certificate shall have  been  filed  with  the
    30  state  comptroller, the chairman of the senate finance committee and the
    31  chairman of the assembly ways and  means  committee  provided,  however,
    32  that  any  expenditures  from  any appropriation in this act made by the
    33  legislature or judiciary shall not require such certificate.
 
    34    § 8. All expenditures and disbursements  made  against  the  appropri-
    35  ations in this act shall, upon final action by the legislature on appro-
    36  priation  bills submitted by the governor pursuant to article VII of the
    37  state constitution for the support of government for  the  state  fiscal
    38  year  beginning  April  1,  2024,  be  transferred by the comptroller as
    39  expenditures and disbursements to  such  appropriations  for  all  state
    40  departments and agencies, as applicable, in amounts equal to the amounts
    41  charged against the appropriations in this act for each such department,
    42  agency, and the legislature and the judiciary.
 
    43    § 9. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    44  sion,  section  or  part  of  this act shall be adjudged by any court of
    45  competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
    46  impair,  or  invalidate  the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
    47  its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section
        S. 8919                             5
 
     1  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
     2  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
     3  the  legislature  that  this  act  would  have been enacted even if such
     4  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
 
     5    §  10.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
     6  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2024; provided,
     7  however, that upon the transfer of expenditures and disbursements by the
     8  comptroller as provided in section eight of this act, the appropriations
     9  made by this act and subject to such section shall be deemed repealed.