Bill Text: NY A06737 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "procedure for informed evaluation of state expenditure decreases act of 2016" to require the governor to submit to the legislature and make available to the public evaluations of proposed and enacted state expenditure decreases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - print number 6737a [A06737 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06737-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6737--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 1, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the  Committee  on  Ways
          and  Means  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          procedure  for  the  informed evaluation of proposed and enacted state
          expenditure decreases
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "procedure for informed evaluation of  state  expenditure  decreases
     3  act of 2016".
     4    § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that the expenditures
     5  of  state  funds  for  operations, maintenance, programs, activities and
     6  assistance have significant and complex impacts on the economic,  social
     7  and  environmental  conditions  in  both the public and private sectors.
     8  Federal funding and matching funds from municipal and  private  sources,
     9  for  example, can be affected by changes in levels of state expenditures
    10  and negative secondary impacts from cuts like the  failure  to  maintain
    11  state  property  can damage the health, safety and welfare of the people
    12  and economy of the state.
    13    The legislature further finds that during  a  volatile  economic  time
    14  decisions are made to cut or impound expenditures, eliminate or downsize
    15  programs  and/or  lay off state employees without adequate evaluation of
    16  the consequences thereof.
    17    Therefore, the legislature declares that an analytical process  should
    18  be  required and information therefrom should be available to the public
    19  when a decrease in state expenditure  from  funds  appropriated  in  the
    20  immediate  previous  state budget is proposed in a state budget bill, or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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