Bill Text: NY A02406 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires reports by state agencies relating to certain grants and expenditures made to community based organizations; requires listing by zip code of such grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-29 - reported referred to ways and means [A02406 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02406-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2406
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 16, 2015
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       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    S 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-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02845-01-5
       A. 2406                             2
    1  BER FIRST OF EACH YEAR RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS AND  GRANTS  TO
    2  COMMUNITY   BASED  ORGANIZATIONS  AS  DEFINED  IN  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
    3  FIFTY-NINE-E OF THIS CHAPTER AND SUCH REPORT  SHALL  BE  POSTED  ON  THE
    4  DIVISION OF THE BUDGET WEBSITE IN A MANNER WHICH IS CLEAR AND ACCESSIBLE
    5  TO  THE  PUBLIC.   SUCH REPORT SHALL PROVIDE A LISTING OF RECIPIENTS, BY
    6  ZIP CODE, OF GRANTS, AWARDS  OR  FUNDS  APPROPRIATED  FOR  SERVICES  AND
    7  PROGRAMS  WHICH  ARE  MADE  TO ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PROVIDE SERVICES ON A
    8  LOCAL BASIS PURSUANT TO PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED BY LAW.
    9    S 2. Section 14 of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 155 of
   10  the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   11    S 14. Departmental statements. 1. In addition to the annual department
   12  reports prescribed by law, the head of each department of the state,  on
   13  or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, shall submit to the
   14  governor  a  statement  of  the  sources, amounts and disposition of all
   15  money received by such department, its divisions,  bureaus  or  officers
   16  for  the  preceding  fiscal  year other than money appropriated for such
   17  department by the legislature or money that was paid by such  department
   18  into  the  treasury.  Such  statement shall include a description of the
   19  nature and the amount of each fund, if any, then under  the  supervision
   20  or  control  of  such department or the head thereof or under the super-
   21  vision or control of any division, bureau, commission,  board  or  other
   22  organization  therein or under the supervision or control of the head or
   23  any other officer of such division, bureau, commission, board or  organ-
   24  ization,  which  was derived from any source whether or not deposited in
   25  the treasury, a citation of the  statute  authorizing  the  creation  or
   26  establishment  of  each  such  fund  and  the  nature  and amount of any
   27  payments made therefrom during the preceding fiscal year.  The  director
   28  of  the budget in the executive department shall make rules, which shall
   29  be approved by the governor, regulating the form and  contents  of  such
   30  statements.  Copies of such statements shall be simultaneously furnished
   31  to the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means  commit-
   32  tee for their information.
   33    2.  The governor, in such form and with such explanation as the gover-
   34  nor may desire, shall transmit to the legislature, with the annual budg-
   35  et, a recapitulation or summary of the  information  contained  in  such
   36  statements  arranged under appropriate headings for each department. The
   37  provisions of this section shall not apply to any funds received by  the
   38  superintendent  of  financial services in a fiduciary capacity or to the
   39  state teachers' retirement fund, or any state employees' retirement  and
   40  pension  fund,  but  such exemption from the application of this section
   41  shall not affect any other provision of law requiring a report or state-
   42  ment of such funds.
   43    3.  IN ADDITION TO THE ANNUAL REPORT REQUIRED  BY  THIS  SECTION,  THE
   44  DIVISION OF THE BUDGET SHALL MAKE A REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE BY SEPTEM-
   45  BER  FIRST  OF EACH YEAR RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS AND GRANTS TO
   46  COMMUNITY  BASED  ORGANIZATIONS  AS  DEFINED  IN  SECTION  ONE   HUNDRED
   47  FIFTY-NINE-E OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW AND SUCH REPORT SHALL BE POSTED ON THE
   48  DIVISION OF THE BUDGET WEBSITE IN A MANNER WHICH IS CLEAR AND ACCESSIBLE
   49  TO  THE  PUBLIC.   SUCH REPORT SHALL PROVIDE A LISTING OF RECIPIENTS, BY
   50  ZIP CODE, OF GRANTS, AWARDS  OR  FUNDS  APPROPRIATED  FOR  SERVICES  AND
   51  PROGRAMS  WHICH  ARE  MADE  TO ORGANIZATIONS WHICH PROVIDE SERVICES ON A
   52  LOCAL BASIS PURSUANT TO PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED BY LAW.
   53    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.