Bill Text: NY A04772 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state comptroller to conduct a study to examine, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning the budget of all state agencies and create a plan to reduce such budgets by one percent each year over an eight-year period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-01 - held for consideration in ways and means [A04772 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04772-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4772

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SMITH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to enact the "one percent spending reduction act"

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be  known  and may be cited as the "one
     2  percent spending reduction act".
     3    § 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "agency"  shall  refer
     4  to  any  agency,  department,  bureau,  commission,  board,  task force,
     5  committee, public benefit  corporation,  or  public  authority  of  this
     6  state.
     7    § 3. The state comptroller shall conduct a study to examine, evaluate,
     8  and  make  recommendations concerning the budget of all agencies in this
     9  state and create a plan to reduce such budgets by one percent each  year
    10  over an eight-year period. Such study shall address the following:
    11    (a)  identifying  any  administrative  waste, fraud, and abuse in such
    12  agencies;
    13    (b) methods to consolidate  programs  and  create  savings,  including
    14  identifying  programs  that  overlap  or  duplicate  each other in their
    15  purpose;
    16    (c) recommendations  for  process  reforms  to  streamline  government
    17  administration;
    18    (d)  the  potential  for  modernization  and technological advances to
    19  assist in such budget reductions;
    20    (e) any other areas of excess spending in such budgets  as  determined
    21  by the state comptroller; and
    22    (f)  the creation of a plan to reduce such budgets by one percent each
    23  year for an eight-year period, without cuts to any  social  security  or
    24  retirement programs or an increase in taxation.
    25    § 4. Such plan as described in section three of this act shall be made
    26  to  the  governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the minority leader
     2  of the assembly no later than one year after the effective date of  this
     3  act.
     4    §  5. The state comptroller may request, and is authorized to receive,
     5  any information from any agency to complete this study and report.  Such
     6  information  received  by  the state comptroller shall be subject to the
     7  same requirements for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as
     8  are applicable to such state agency's use of such information.
     9    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.